Leaders of a new pro-independence movement were influenced by Enlightenment ideals and hoped to bring an ideal nation into existence.

Critics have often questioned its cost and asked whether its Enlightenment ideals can survive in a country where censorship is common.

They were inspired by the American and French Enlightenment ideals.

Many other factors involved resentments and aspirations given focus by the rise of Enlightenment ideals.

The building itself was meant to exemplify the Enlightenment ideals the society stood for.

The model constitution of 1791 expressed Enlightenment ideals but was in effect for only one year as the nation was partitioned among its neighbors.

Zalman was also open to some of the Enlightenment ideals, which he tried to accommodate within a mystical framework.

The newsroom reaches daily toward the Enlightenment ideals of free speech and independent inquiry, however imperfectly.

This Enlightenment ideal, espoused by Rousseau and others, advocated that people have the right to consent to their government in a form of social contract.

On the right and on the left alike, there is growing impatience with liberal Enlightenment ideals.