Tag: Class structure
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Was the Enlightenment Democratic?
Reading Time: 3 minutesThere is no question that the Enlightenment and Reformation made the United States possible. But there have always been concerns about the Enlightenment.
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Was the Enlightenment a Democratic Movement?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to Harold Kaplan, Americans do not question the effects on the United States of the Reformation and the Enlightenment. But was the Enlightenment a democratic movement? Kaplan wrote: “We do not question that the twin roots of American national history were the religious revolution, which broke the Catholic hegemony, and the…