The Enlightenment Influences on the Founding Fathers

Which Enlightenment thinker argued that all people were born equal and had natural rights to life, liberty, and property?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
•  Baron de Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

This is the idea that “the people” give the government power to protect their natural rights and must live by the rules?

• Separation of Powers
• Checks and Balances
• Social Contract 
• Rule of Law

Montesquieu is most known for his ideas on?

• Social Contract
• Separation of Powers
• Natural Rights
• Protection of life, liberty and property

What document was most influenced by John Locke’s ideas?

• The Constitution
• The Magna Carta
• The Bill of Rights
• The Declaration of Independence

Separation of Powers influenced the US Government by providing?

• Checks & Balances
• Natural Rights 
• Natural Law
• The Social Contract

Enlightenment thinker John Locke thought that rights come from?

• The government
• The Declaration of Independence
• God or nature
• The king

John Locke said that the purpose of government was to?

• To protect life, liberty and property 
• Fight wars against evil kings
• To provide roads, bridges and parks
• To protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Thomas Jefferson described the social contract as?

• natural law
• a declaration of independence
• consent of the governed
• life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

The “Enlightenment” was a time known for?

• a lot of crime and poverty
• learning to make the world a better place
• fighting against the British
• returning to the way things used to be

John Locke stated that people are born with 3 ____________.

• Nature Laws

• Natural Rights

• Natural Flavors

• Nature Walks