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Life, Liberty and the right to own Property are considered by Locke to be examples of this

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Natural Rights

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This thinker believed in freedom of speech and religion

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Voltaire

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This concept by Rousseau states that people are willing to give up some of their freedoms in exchange for protection from the government

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social contract

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This thinker believed that there needed to be three branches of government who had separate but equal powers and the ability to check eachother

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Montesquieu

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This time period can best be described as a time where people began to question the world around them in particular government's role in people's lives.

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The Enlightenment

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Thomas Jefferson borrowed Locke's ideas and called "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" these

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Inalienable Rights

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This thinker believed that if your government is violating your natural rights you can overthrow them.

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Locke

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Which thinker was Jefferson most influenced by in this quote from the Declaration of Independence? "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government"

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Locke