Following the enlightenment, many europeans began to support the ideas of “divine right” and absolute rule. believe people could improve their government. worry that monarchs would always be in power. fear that all government would be abolished.

With the enlightenment, a wave of different thought struck Europe where people started to denounce the idea of divine right and absolute rule. People also thought that they were indeed able to improve their government and could themselves substantially improve the outlook of their own government to which they were inferior.