Question 5 • CMS 2026-2027 Founding Principles of the US and NC: Civic Literacy CREDIT RECOVERY
Enlightenment philosophers valued reason and evidence, believing science could help explain the world and that human nature could be studied systematically. Many also drew on the ideas of ancient Greek and Roman thinkers. They often questioned traditional political and religious authority, so they did not generally accept that existing political ideas needed no improvement or that monarchies and the church were ideal models.
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