Democracy wasn’t created overnight. It was made from years of wisdom and experience. Eventually the American colonists decided to refuse the British King in the American Revolution, but the colonists didn’t just do that out of the blue. They were influenced by the Age of Enlightenment and the men who induced it, the philosophes. Europeans no longer lived in the middle ages. Ocean voyages and the printing press brought them to a new way of life which was never thought possible before. The Protestant Reformation encouraged people to questions the teachings of the church and the printing press helped spread ideas faster than ever before. It was the perfect storm for philosophes. Thomas Hobbes wrote in the Leviathan that people are incapable of
