Enlightenment

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______ believed in the separation of powers in the government.

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Montesquieu

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Which is NOT a goal of enlightened thinkers during the Age of Reason? They wanted to improve the way people lived. They wanted people to think clearly and logically without letting their feelings guide them. They wanted to use scientific reasoning to examine every part of society.

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They wanted people to remain uneducated and let the government do the thinking for them.

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What were Voltaire’s ideas regarding government and religion?

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He advocated religious tolerance and the separation of religion and government.

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Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

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John Locke

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Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to abolish their government and create a new one? (Consent of the governed)

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Locke

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Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

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Scientific Revolution.

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The Enlightenment is

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a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world

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The Enlightenment philosophers believed that the power of government is derived from

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those who are governed

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The idea that people give up some of their power to the government in exchange for the protection of the laws that government provides.

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Social Contract Theory

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Locke argued that specific rights, duties, structure, and function of governments should be...

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in a constitution