How did the writings of European thinkers during the Enlightenment spur the American and French Revolutions?

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During the Enlightenment, thinkers such as Rousseau, Voltaire, Descartes, Baron de Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, and Bacon began to introduce concepts that were thought up using reason. Rousseau, for example, argued that the only purpose of education was to teach a man to reason. Any man, he surmises, that can already reason for himself has no need for education. Baron de Montesquieu practically invented the system of checks and balances that the United States uses today.