Enlightenment Philosophers

What are the rights you have from 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

Who's social contract calls for citizens to give up their rights to each other and NOT the government?

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Life before government or life before a social contract

• Natural Laws
• State of Nature
• Rousseau's bad dream

Laws that govern life on earth-Enlightenment thinkers attempted to find these in government and society

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

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

• Diderot
• Wollstonecraft
• Beccaria
• Montesquieu

The Enlightenment challenged the following institutions... (Select the best answer)

• Government
• The Church 
• Both Government and Church

Which country put all of the Enlightenment ideas by changing their absolute monarchy to a

• Constitutional Monarchy
• Absolute Monarchy
• Theocracy
• Dictatorship

What role did the government have, according to John Locke?

• Protect the people's natural rights

• Take away people's natural rights

• Help determine the people's natural rights