Equality and freedom are universal concepts that everyone understands and strongly desires. However the government or monarchies of a country often prevent the common people from having these rights and it enrages them and they begin to question the ways the that they rule, this period of time was called the Enlightenment. The American, French, and Glorious Revolutions are some examples what happened when the people do not agree with their leaders and demand more rights. Philosophers John-Jacques, Cesare Beccaria, and Montesquieu have similar ideas on how to have a functioning society where the government is not in complete and control and the people still have their freedom and natural
