Enlightenment Thinkers

What did John Locke believe all people were born with? 

• Natural Rights
• Life
• Liberty
• Property

Your Natural Rights include: Life, Liberty, and ...

• the Pursuit of Happiness
• Property
• Slaves
• Money

What did John Locke believe of most people?

• They are evil.
• They can't be trusted.
• They are good.
• They would riot.

What is an agreement between people and the government?

• Consent
• Natural Rights
• Social Contract
• Voting

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

• revolution

• continue to obey

• petition

• emigration

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

Voltaire was a big believer in which of the following?

• Freedom of Speech
• People are born wicked
• People are born free and equal
• The social contract

What does the term "natural laws" mean?

• life, liberty, and property

• Laws that are applicable as soon as you walk into any society, and are the framework of our existence

• Laws that applicable to one society and not another, but are necessary everywhere

• Laws that must be enforced

This philosopher believed that if government was set up to have separated powers, they would naturally check one another and create balance.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquie

The idea of separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution clearly reflects the ideas of

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Rousseau