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How did the French use Enlightenment ideas to justify revolution?(1 point)
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The government was no longer serving them as many starved, therefore, they believed their agreement with their ruler had been violated.
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The French stated that they had natural rights to life, liberty, and property.

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Both — they used Enlightenment ideas of natural rights and the social contract. Philosophers like John Locke taught that people have natural rights (life, liberty, property) and that governments exist to protect those rights; if a ruler violates that agreement, the people may overthrow him. The French echoed this in the Revolution and in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.