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Following up on the Scientific Revolution came the Enlightenment. The Scientific Revolution describes everything as having a rational base and everything abided by the law of nature. So, people started to apply this socially. People did not see the king or monarchies as being enlightened since they were always searching for glory. The church was not seen as being enlightened either because it followed the traditional way of ruling.
Montesquieu believed that there "…are the necessary relations arising form the nature of things. In this sense, all being have their laws…(The Spirit of Laws)." Every entity in existence has laws (including God, animals, etc.). These laws describe the relations between everything. Man is also governed by invariable laws, which are of God, but also from philosophers who teach "by the laws of morality," and legislators who teach man now to obey by "political and civil laws" of society. Breaking the laws made for man is a basis that was used for......

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