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Revolutionary Ideas Across the Atlantic: Enlightenment Sources of the American Independence Movement

跨大西洋的思想革命：美国独立运动的启蒙思想渊源

American colonists read Locke’s theory that governments exist only by consent and may be dissolved if they violate natural rights.
Montesquieu’s analysis of separated powers deeply influenced the U.S. Constitution’s three-branch design.
Rousseau’s concept of the general will resonated with town-hall democracy and resistance to distant parliamentary authority.
Colonial printers reproduced pamphlets like Thomas Paine’s 'Common Sense', which framed independence as both moral duty and practical necessity.
Legal scholars cited Blackstone’s Commentaries to argue that British taxation without representation violated English constitutional tradition.
Universities such as Harvard and Princeton taught Enlightenment philosophy alongside theology, shaping revolutionary leadership.
Even enslaved writers like Phyllis Wheatley invoked natural law to challenge slavery’s contradiction with liberty rhetoric.
The Declaration of Independence echoes Locke directly when asserting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as unalienable rights.
These ideas did not emerge in isolation—they traveled through books, letters, and transatlantic networks of dissent.
Their adaptation in America shows how universal principles gain force through local struggle and reinterpretation.

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Montesquieu’s analysis of separated powers deeply influenced the U.S. Constitution’s three-branch design. 孟德斯鸠对权力分立的分析深刻影响了美国宪法的三权分立设计。
Universities such as Harvard and Princeton taught Enlightenment philosophy alongside theology, shaping revolutionary leadership. 哈佛、普林斯顿等大学将启蒙哲学与神学并列讲授，塑造了革命领导层。
Their adaptation in America shows how universal principles gain force through local struggle and reinterpretation. 它们在美国的本土化过程表明：普世原则唯有经由地方斗争与重新诠释，方能获得力量。

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Montesquieu’s analysis of separated powers deeply influenced the U.S. Constitution’s three-branch design.

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Montesquieu’s analysis of separated powers deeply influenced the U.S. Constitution’s three-branch design.

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