Relax before you start eating, and then eat slowly. Remember it takes time for your stomach to tell your brain that you're full. Stop a quarter of the way through your meal, and check your hunger level. If you're still hungry, keep eating, but stop again at the halfway point.
Commerce of Thought. The Age of American Enlightenment can be roughly dated as the half-century from 1765 to 1815.(Cassara, 25) Many key events happened and many key individuals existed before these years but the central events of the American Enlightenment occurred within these dates.
Since the 1960s, historians have debated the Enlightenment's role in the American Revolution. Before 1960 the consensus was that liberalism, especially that of John Locke, was paramount; republicanism was largely ignored. The new interpretations were pioneered by J.G.A.y far the most important French sources to the American Enlightenment, however, were Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws and Emer de Vattel's Law of Nations. Both informed early American ideas of government and were major influences on the Constitution.