[Galatians513]

Somehow the philosophy of the Enlightenment took hold and changed our Western world. Unfortunately, it hasn't been adopted by the vast majority of the world.

The Enlightenment produced the barbaric French revolution. It was the Reformation that produced constitutional democracy...

[wildbill]

Actually it was the American Revolution that encouraged the French Revolution and many revolutions since then have used the words and ideas of the Declaration of Independence as a basis for their own movement.

The Declaration of Independence is quite a radical document when you study it.