Throughout history there have been several leaders who

used their cunning and sly intelligence to trick the general

population into following them and their beliefs. Eventually,

these leaders had so much support, they could no longer be

called leaders, but absolute and dictatorial rulers. However,

during the period of Enlightenment and of the French

Revolution, non-maleficent ideas, created by Locke,

Montesquieu, Voltaire, and other Enlightenment

Philosophes, were spread throughout the European

population. They stated the opposition to absolute

monarchies as well as a new main focus on people's innate

rights and freedoms. Many leaders after this period of

Enlightenment preached its ideas, while others simply used

them to gain power. Simon Bolivar might have preached

opinions that mainly reflected the ideas of the French

Revolution. However, his actions contradicted these

opinions, and revealed that his true intentions were selfish

and illiberal.



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