The concepts in the Declaration come from the philosophical and political principles of the Age of Enlightenment, such as individualism, the social contract as theorized by the Swiss philosopher Rousseau, and the separation of powers espoused by the Baron de Montesquieu.

Hartshorne was deeply influenced by French philosopher Jules Lequier and by Swiss philosopher Charles Secrétan who were probably the first ones to claim that in God liberty of becoming is above his substantiality.

Rousseau most commonly refers to 18th-century Swiss author and philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and it may also refer to:

* 1821 – Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Swiss philosopher, poet, and critic ( d. 1881 )

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ) Swiss political philosopher ; influenced many Enlightenment figures but did not himself believe in primacy of reason and is closer to Romanticism.

* probable-Jacob Acontius, Swiss jurist, theologian, philosopher and engineer ( b. 1492 )

* December 28 – Emerich de Vattel, Swiss philosopher ( b. 1714 )

* July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher ( b. 1712 )

* June 28 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher ( d. 1778 )

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau – ( 1712 – 1778 ), Swiss philosopher and writer

* February 18-Joseph Heinrich Aloysius Gügler, Swiss philosopher and theologian ( born 1782 )

* Peter Henrici, Swiss Jesuit philosopher, Auxiliary Bishop of Chur, Switzerland

* May 20-Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and philosopher ( born 1720 )

The term Biosophy was probably first used in 1806 by Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler, a Swiss philosopher whose early works followed F. W. J. Schelling.

Carl Hilty ( 28 February 1833 – 1909 ) was a Swiss philosopher, writer and lawyer.

* Michael Landmann ( 1913 – 84 ), Swiss philosopher

* March 3-Pierre Prévost, Swiss philosopher and physicist ( died 1839 )

* Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss writer and philosopher.

Pierre Prévost ( 3 March 1751-8 April 1839 ) was a Swiss philosopher and physicist.

* Werner Ulrich, Swiss social scientist and practical philosopher, one of the originators of " critical systems thinking " ( CST ).

Charles Secretan ( 1815 – 1895 ) was a Swiss philosopher born on January 19, 1815 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he also died on January 21, 1895.

Henri Frédéric Amiel ( 27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881 ) was a Swiss philosopher, poet and critic.

* Hansjörg Auf der Maur ( 1933-1999 ), Swiss philosopher and theologian

Hegel, French materialist and utilitarian philosophe Claude Adrien Helvétius, Swiss collectivist philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French utopian socialist Henri de Saint-Simon, and Savoyard conservative Joseph de Maistre as thinkers who constituted the ideological basis for modern authoritarianism, in his book Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty.

* 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss theorist ( d. 1748 )

* 1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( d. 1893 )

* August 6 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( b. 1811 )

** Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, member of the Swiss Federal Council ( d. 1893 )

The 1767 Dictionnaire de Musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau claims that Swiss mercenaries were threatened with severe punishment to prevent them from singing their Swiss songs.

Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel ( 11 May 1811 – 6 August 1893 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1864-1872 ).

Blocher thus became the fourth federal councillor to be ousted from office in the history of the Swiss Federal State, following Ruth Metzler whom he had replaced the previous term, besides Ulrich Ochsenbein and Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel in the 19th century.

The Swiss philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau, for example, wrote a political tract, a treatise on education, constitutions for Poland and Corsica, an analysis of the effects of the theater on public morals, a best-selling novel, an opera, and a highly influential autobiography.

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui ( 24 June 1694 – 3 April 1748 ) was a Swiss legal and political theorist who popularised a number of ideas propounded by other thinkers.

Considerations on the Government of Poland — also simply The Government of Poland or, in the original French, Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne — is an essay by Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau concerning the design of a new constitution for the people of Poland ( or more exactly, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ).

But then one day, while on a week's visit to the country home of a retired Swiss jeweler, Rousseau amused the company with a few little melodies he had written, to which he attached no great importance.

Rousseau was born in Geneva, which was at the time a city-state and a Protestant associate of the Swiss Confederacy.

French and Swiss Enlightenment thinkers, such as Montesquieu and later Rousseau, expanded upon and altered the ideas of what an ideal republic should be: some of their new ideas were scarcely traceable to antiquity or the Renaissance thinkers.

He traced this decline further back, to the Enlightenment and the Reformation ; he described the source of the evil as " Swiss ideas ", a reference to the adopted nation of Calvin and the birth nation of Rousseau.

But Rousseau, though a Genevese, belongs rather to European than to Swiss literature, as do later Jacques Necker and his daughter, Madame de Staël, Benjamin Constant and Sismondi.

By fall, 443 survivors of this arduous journey were clustered about Fort Snelling, but most of them were sent on to Galena and St. Louis, with a few going as far as Vevay, Indiana, a notable Swiss center in the United States.

Ordered by the Legislative Assembly to send away the Swiss guards, he refused, and was arrested for treason to the nation and sent to Orléans to be tried.

Cesare was appointed commander of the papal armies with a number of Italian mercenaries, supported by 300 cavalry and 4, 000 Swiss infantry sent by the King of France.

Weapons supplies were made available to the Mujahideen through numerous countries ; the United States purchased all of Israel's captured Soviet weapons clandestinely, and then funnelled the weapons to the Mujahideen, while Egypt upgraded their own army's weapons, and sent the older weapons to the militants, Turkey sold their World War II stockpiles to the warlords, and the British and Swiss provided Blowpipe missiles and Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns respectively, after they were found to be poor models for their own forces.

Later, he was briefed in nuclear physics, provided a Beretta automatic pistol and a cyanide pill ( to kill himself if necessary ), and sent to Zurich, Switzerland posing as a Swiss physics student.

In 1802, Cavanilles sent roots of " these three " ( D. pinnata, D. rosea, D. coccinea ) to Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle at University of Montpelier in France, Andre Thouin at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris and Scottish botanist William Aiton at Kew Gardens.

Weapons supplies were made available through numerous countries ; the United States purchased all of Israel's captured Soviet weapons clandestinely, and then funnelled the weapons to the Mujahideen, while Egypt upgraded their own army's weapons, and sent the older weapons to the militants, Turkey sold their World War II stockpiles to the warlords, and the British and Swiss provided Blowpipe missiles and Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns respectively, after they were found to be poor models for their own forces.

They were later admitted to the Capuchin Order on December 2, 1857 by Father Antoine Gauchet of the Swiss Province who had been sent to admit them, in order to establish the Order in the United States.

Apart from fewer than a hundred Swiss who escaped from the Tuileries, some hidden by sympathetic Parisians, the only survivors of the regiment were a three-hundred-strong detachment which had been sent to Normandy to escort grain convoys a few days before August 10th.

Ansermet, its initial musical director, was not pleased at being supplanted by a conductor of whom he was reportedly " ragingly jealous ", but the composer Darius Milhaud commented on how much better the orchestra played for Monteux " since Ansermet has been sent back to his Swiss pastures ".

The weakness of the British military command was exposed when a force was sent from Madras to support Muhammed Ali at Trichinopoly, but its commander, a Swiss mercenary, refused to attack an outpost at Valikondapuram.

In 1693, Jakob Ammann, " together with the ministers and elders ," sent a general letter to people within the Swiss Brethren congregations, asking for a meeting in which he wanted clarification about where they stood on three issues: 1 ) Shunning those who had been banned, 2 ) whether liars should be excommunicated, and 3 ) if people could be saved who did not follow God's word.

After graduating, his father sent him to Bellerive, a school near the Swiss village of Vevey.

During the initial public offering of advertising giant Dentsu, in December 2001, a trader at UBS Warburg, the Swiss investment bank, sent an order to sell 610, 000 shares in this company at ¥ 1 each, while he intended to sell 1 share at ¥ 610, 000.

The Tagsatzung also sent him on a fact-finding mission to Naples, where Swiss mercenaries had been accused of atrocious behavior while suppressing uprisings preceding the revolutions of 1848.

In 1615 Bassompierre had purchased from Henri, duc de Rohan, the coveted position of colonelgeneral of the Swiss and Grisons ; on this account he was sent to raise troops in Switzerland when Louis XIII marched against Savoy in 1629, and after a short campaign in Italy his military career ended.

The Huguenots scorned their Landsknecht mercenaries after these were immediately routed by the battered Swiss mercenary pike-block they had been sent to finish off at the Battle of Dreux ( 1562 ).

In 1515, Wolsey sent Pace to urge the Swiss to attack France.

Mail may be sent using either a Swiss postal code or an Italian one using Switzerland or Italy as destination country respectively.

On October 21, 1946, a Top Secret report from US Treasury Agent Emerson Bigelow ( called " The Bigelow Report "), which was declassified in 1997, quoted a " reliable source in Italy " ( who corroborated evidence already obtained by CIC intelligence officials of the Army ), who alerted his superior that Croatian officials had sent 350 million confiscated Swiss francs ( CHF ) to the IOR " for safekeeping ", a sum largely in the form of gold coins.

William's childhood was an austere one, educated at home by a Swiss governess, he was sent to a private school at Southwell, Nottinghamshire when he was eight.

Hungary put five past Poland, the Swiss sent poor Lithuania on their way, 9-0.

These declarations were sent to the Swiss diet in 20 packets, in order to increase the effect of shock.

A detachment of Swiss grenadiers from the Salis-Samade Regiment was sent to reinforce the garrison of the Bastille prison shortly before it is was besieged by the mob.