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Throughout history there have been several leaders who
used their cunning and sly intelligence to trick the general
population into following them and their beliefs. Eventually,
these leaders had so much support, they could no longer be
called leaders, but absolute and dictatorial rulers. However,
during the period of Enlightenment and of the French
Revolution, non-maleficent ideas, created by Locke,
Montesquieu, Voltaire, and other Enlightenment
Philosophes, were spread throughout the European
population. They stated the opposition to absolute
monarchies as well as a new main focus on people's innate
rights and freedoms. Many leaders after this period of
Enlightenment preached its ideas, while others simply used
them to gain power. Simon Bolivar might have preached
opinions that mainly reflected the ideas of the French
Revolution. However, his actions contradicted these
opinions, and revealed that his true intentions were selfish
and illiberal.

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