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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Natural Rights

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• Life, Liberty, and Property
• Freedom
• Rights to say what we want, when we want to.

___________________ believed that without government, people would fight each other all the time.

• A. Locke
• B. Hobbes
• C. Montesquieu
• D. Smith

American's used _________________'s idea of separation of powers to write the US Constitution. 

• A. Montesquieu
• B. Hobbes
• C. Rousseau
• D. Voltaire

Who inspired the idea in the Declaration of Independence that all men have natural rights?

• Locke

• Beccaria

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

Define "social contract"

• an entire society of Imperial Stormtroopers
• an entire society of flesh-eating bacteria
• an entire society agrees to be governed by its king
• an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will

Argued people have a right to overthrow a government that does not protect their natural rights

• Hobbes

• Diderot

• Locke

• Wollstonecraft

three branches of government with checks and balances is best was the idea of

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Locke

• Wollstonecraft

According to the Declaration of Independence who gives us our rights? 

• given by God at birth 
• given by our government 
• given by our president 
• given by our parents 

The Declaration of Independence states the purpose of government is 

• to tax and control finances
• to provide rules for the people
• to regulate trade 
• to serve the people