French philosopher charles de montesquieu developed the idea that executive, legislative, and judicial authority should be assigned to different branches of government. this idea was later adapted in the u. s. constitution as the
a. principle of the separation of powers.
b. principle of limited government.
c. theory of concurrent powers.
d. practice of republicanism.

two months after his defeat of napoleon bonaparte's colonial forces, jean-jacques dessalines proclaims the independence of saint-domingue, renaming it haiti after its original arawak name. in 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the french colony, and toussaint-louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.

britain's king george iii, however, refused to receive the petition, which, written we consider whom we must oppose in this contest, and if it continues, what may the fundamental grounds upon which americans were taking up arms had shifted. that king george refused to so much as receive the