As a result of enlightenment how did peoples thinking about their government change

People believed that the government existed as the result of an agreement  between the people and their leaders.

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.