Enlightenment Philosophers

Who is most associated with the idea that everyone is born with natural rights?

• Baron de Montesquieu
• John Locke
• Voltaire
• Adam Smith

Which Enlightenment philosopher believed you had a right to express yourself, even if your words were not something that people agreed with?

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Adam Smith

A free market (laisses faire) economy was the primary idea of what Enlightenment philosopher?

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Adam Smith

The idea that people agree to follow laws, so long as they are otherwise allowed their freedom is known as:

• the social contract

• separation of powers

• freedom of expression

• natural rights

The right to live freely and to keep any property that you've earned is an idea promoted mostly by:

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

• Voltaire

The Declaration of Independence most clearly borrows from the ideas of:

• Adam Smith
• Voltaire
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Who was the founder of the idea of laissez-faire (hands off by the government) economics?

• John Locke
• Baron de Montesquieu
• Adam Smith
• Voltaire

Whose writing most influenced the structure of the United States government as we know it today, with a lawmaking body, a law executing body, and a law judging body?

• Adam Smith
• Voltaire
• Baron de Montesquieu
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Why did Thomas Jefferson alter slightly Locke's ideas of natural rights when he wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• He did not want future generations to know that these were not his original ideas.
• Being a slaveholder from Virginia, he wanted to send the message that not all in the new United States would have the right to own property.
• He was a believer in the death penalty and would not guarantee life in the Declaration of Independence.
• Jefferson misinterpreted Locke's and other Enlightenment philosophers' original thoughts.

Which Enlightenment philosopher would have been most critical of Governor Gretchen Whitmer's actions to shut down the economy during the pandemic?

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Adam Smith

• Voltaire