Enlightenment Philosophers

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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What are the rights you have ffrom birth that the government should defend called?

• Natural Law
• Natural Rights
• State of Nature
• Social Contract

Which Enlightenment thinker impacted the U.S. government?

• Rousseau
• Beccaria
• John Locke
• All choices are correct

What were the Natural Rights, according to Locke? (select the best answer)

• Safety
• Life, Liberty, and pursuit of happiness
• Property
• Life, Liberty, and Property

This person thought a natural law for protecting rights was to separate government into three branches

• Diderot
• Wollstonecraft
• Beccaria
• Montesquieu

In Hobbes and Locke's social contract, the people always give ________ to the government

• Divine Right
• The power to violate the people's rights
• Consent to rule
• The keys to their heart

The Bill of Rights is a product of whose philosophies?

• Beccaria
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Wollstonecraft

Guess the philosopher who inspired this quote from the Declaration of Independence:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Beccaria

Guess the philosopher who inspired this section of the Constitution:

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

• Hobbes

• Beccaria

• Locke

• Rousseau

Guess the philosopher who inspired this section of the US Constitution:

Article. II ,Section. 1.The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. Article. I., Section 1 All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Article III., Section 1: The judicial Power shall be vested in one supreme Court. . .

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Montequieu