It included references to Enlightenment principles (notably, the right to resist oppression), but was also an almost millenarianist appeal to peasants, promising a "spring" to follow "winter".

While Habermas's allegiance to Enlightenment principles has been uncontroversial, Derrida's explicit defense of them is an important achievement of this book.

It embodied Enlightenment principles such as equality of all citizens before the law, religious toleration, and advancement based on virtue.

Actually, it's the opposite: I'm alarmed that the Enlightenment principles embodied in our Constitution are being compromised, distorted and weakened.

This family venerates a certain idea of France - literature, eloquent language, Enlightenment principles.

Italian elites became conversant with French Enlightenment principles and with English ideas, too, spread by young aristocrats on the grand tour.

This was the first constitution written under Enlightenment principles.

Enlightenment principles are worth defending (as a leftist thinker like Habermas would say).

Does your lexicon of Enlightenment principles include name-calling towards those you disagree with?

Seeing as he/she was never consulted, the result instead foisted upon them a governing elite, the aforementioned Enlightenment principles never entered the equation.