Enlightenment Philosophy Review

John Locke supported the right of the people to do this if government failed to protect natural rights.

• revolution

• continue to obey

• petition

• emigration

According to John Locke, these are given by God and cannot be taken by the government. The protection of these is the purpose of the government.

• divine rights

• systemic rights

• natural rights

• preternatural rights

John Locke wrote this book around 1689 to explain his opposition to the divine right of kings and uphold his version of the social contract theory.

• The Prince

• Leviathan

• Two Treatises on Government

• The Social Contract

The influence of John Locke is clear in this document, although he died in 1704 and this document was written in 1776.

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Communist Manifesto

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Social Contract

Thomas Hobbes wrote in defense of _, that is, a monarch with the unlimited right to rule.

• democratic monarchy

• absolute monarchy

• constitutional monarchy

• parliamentary monarchy

Thomas Hobbes wrote in _, his best-known book on political philosophy, that life in the state of nature is "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

• Discourses on Livy

• Leviathan

• Two Treatises on Government

• The Prince

The theory of the divine right of kings held that _ gave monarchs the right to rule.

• the social contract

• God

• the Force

• public consensus

What is the Leviathan?

• The social contract between the government and people
• Monarchy with little power
• The monster
• A way of living before governments

According to Montesquieu, what is the main purpose of government?

• to maintain law and order, political liberty, and the property of the individual

• to build a wall

• to create laws that everyone agree on

• to open Chic Fil A on Sundays

To him, what was the best form of government?

• where each powers (legislative, executive, and judicial) were separate and kept each other in check to prevent any branch from becoming too powerful

• democracy

• absolute monarchy

• every man for himself