9th February 2004, 11:55 PM
Pretty poor history of the 1700s then... or history of the United States, as I said the Founding Fathers were part of it and the Declaration of Independance was a Enlightenment work... "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"? "inalienable rights"? Those are Enlightenment ideas.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enlightenment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enlightenment