Enlightenment

Which period in history had the greatest influence on the Enlightenment ideas of natural law and reason?

• Pax Romana

• Middle Ages

• Age of Exploration

• Scientific Revolution

In Two Treatises of Government, John Locke wrote that the purpose of government was to

• Keep kings in power

• regulate the economy

• expand territory

• protect natural rights

Once contribution that John Locke made to Enlightenment philosophy was the idea that

• absolute monarchies should continue

• the punishment should fit the crime

• individual rights should be denied

• governments should be based on the consent of the poeple

Which idea expresses an idea of the Enlightenment?

• The king is sacred and answers only to God

• History is a continuous struggle between social classes

• Those who are the most fit will survive and succeed

• All individuals have natural rights

Baron de Montesquieu believed that a separation of powers would

• prevent tyranny by acting as a check on power

• restore authority to the Roman Catholic Church

• increase corruption of political authority

• decrease the power of the middle class

John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau would be most likely to support

• a return to feudalism in Europe

• a government ruled by a divine monarchy

• a society ruled by the Catholic Church

• the right of citizens to decide the best form of government

The writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that government decisions should be based on

• fundamental religious beliefs

• the concept of the divine right of the kings

• laws of nature and reason

• traditional values