An idea from the enlightenment that influenced the declaration of independence was 1.the social contract. 2.representative government. 3.trial by jury. 4.freedom of elections.

The correct answer is number 2.- Representative government.

An idea from Enlightenment that influenced the Declaration of Independence was the Representative government.

The Representative government was one of the many ideas that influenced the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson and others believed in the idea that the government should protect the citizens and respect and guarantee their natural rights. Brilliant thinkers of the Enlightenment such as Voltaire, John Lock, and Thomas Hobbes, wrote many ideas that infuenced directly and appear in the Declaration of Independence of the United States.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

answer: an oligarchy is a political system in which the government is run by a group of noble families, or the elite wealthy members of a society. a present day oligarchic government is iran.

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