Enlightenment Thinkers That Influenced the Constitution

A "Social Contract" is an agreement between a ruler and who?

• Monarchy

• Dictator

• Citizens

• Aliens

John Locke talked about the "Tabula Rasa" which mean everybody is born with this?

• Blank Slate

• Problems

• King Red

• Full Slate

John Locke believed these people had these type of right?

• No Rights

• Freedom Rights

• Natural Rights

• Unnatural Rights

According to John Locke what must the government do with people's rights?

• Get rid of them

• Protect Them

• Get Over them

John Locke inspired the writing of this important document by Thomas Jefferson

• US Constitution

• The Magna Carta

• The Declaration of Independence

• English Bill of Rights

Baron de Montesquieu developed this idea for government

• One House Congress

• Checks and Balances

• No House Congress

• The President

Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?

• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes
• Voltaire

Who believed the government should protect a person's three natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

• Rousseau
• Beccaria
• Wollstonecraft
• Locke

Promoted democracy, believed that people had the right to life, liberty, and property.

• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke
• Sir Isaac Newton
• Thomas Hobbes

Which of these was greatly influenced by the Enlightenment?

• the Magna Carta
• the American Revolution
• the Scientific Revolution
• the divine right of kings