2.1 "Enlightenment"

This was an 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals, aiming to apply reason to all endeavors.

• Reformation
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment
• Scientific Revolution

What did Mary Wollstonecraft write?

• The U.S. Declaration of Independence
• Vindication of the Rights of Women
• The French Constitution
• Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems

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

Which one does not relate to the others?

• positive view of people
• government protect rights
• absolute monarchy
• Locke

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

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

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:

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

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

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

The Enlightenment philosophers believed that the power of the government should be derived from….?

• The people
• The elite nobles
• small group of rulers
• kings and queens

Which Enlightenment philosopher argued for freedom of religion and free speech?  

• Rousseau
• Locke
• Montesquiue
• Voltaire