Age of Enlightenment

The theory of Montesquieu was called separation of powers because it separated government

• into 2 branches, with equal power
• into 2 branches, with strong legislative branch
• into 3 branches, with equal power
• into 3 branches, with strong judicial branch

Who was the Enlightenment thinker who proposed separation of powers?

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Baron de Montesquieu

The ideas of Locke are found MOST easily in which of these documents?

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Communist Manifesto

• The Gettysburg Address

• The United Nation's Charter

John Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people’s natural rights.

• True
• False 

Who was John Locke?

• the man who came up with "natural rights"

• the guy who made rap famous

• he invented the telescope

• First president of France

Who was Charles Montesquieu?

• He came up with the idea of "separation of powers" in government

• He made science popular again

• He was arrested for free speech

• He made a lot of money

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence? 

• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke 
• Adam Smith

This Quaker leader will write "Frame of Government?"

• John Locke

• William Penn

• Montesquie

• Thomas Hooker

This leader will write the first constitution of all the colonies called "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut."

• John Locke

• William Penn

• Thomas Hooker

• Abraham Lincoln