Enlightenment thinkers believed that power needed to be separated and balanced to keep people from becoming corrupt.
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Thomas Jefferson
The answer is enlightened despot.
The enlightenment had a lot to do with the declaration. the age of enlightenment brought forth new ideas from enlightenment thinkers suck as John Locke and the natural rights which Thomas Jefferson put in the declaration of independence
They helped create the laws and constituionwe have today in the United States.
By suggesting that kings were not given their political power by God.