Enlightenment Practice

The Enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth
• a time when science ruled
• a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world
• a time when technology ruled

Enlightenment philosopher who did not agree with censorship.

• Voltaire
• Thomas Hobbes
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• John Locke

Enlightenment philosopher who believed men and women should be equal

• Voltaire
• John Locke
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

• John Locke
• Chales de Montesquieu
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people give the government to ability to rule and in return the government should protect will of the people.  

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Natural Rights include: 

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• Life, Liberty, and Property
• Freedom
• Rights to say what we want, when we want to.

A Social Contract is: 

• Government protect people, people follow(give power) to the government
• Government protects people and people don't complain.
• People cannot trust a government.
• People must trust the government and in return they cannot have a say in government.

John Locke stated that people form governments ______________?

• To protect their natural laws
• To protect their natural rights
• To promote absolute monarchy
• To establish trade

Rousseau wrote, "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." What kind of government did he favor in order to insure greater freedom?

• An absolute monarchy
• An enlightened monarchy
• An Oligarchy
• A popularly elected government