APUSH The Enlightenment

"...all men are created equal...they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights" (life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness)

• Philosophies from the Spanish
• European Absolute Monarchy Principles
• Ancient Holy Roman Empire Rules
• Reflections from the European Enlightenment

Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights (Life, liberty, property):

• Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

• Philosophers
• Democracy
• Social Contract
• Divine Right of Kings

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness

• Natural Rights
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Divine Right of Kings

Who most likely wrote "Man is full of self-interest and governments are needed to keep order."

• Benjamin Franklin
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:

• A dictatorship
• A democracy
• An absolute monarchy
• All of these

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes

Who wrote about ABSOLUTE monarchs being the best form of government in his book "Leviathan"

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu

The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.

• a natural law
• checks and balances
• a social contract
• laissez-faire

A distribution of powers to more than one branch of government

• natural rights
• Separation of Powers
• Social Contract
• Theocracy