Enlightenment Thinkers

Locke believed that people enjoyed certain basic rights under natural law: 

• life, liberty, and property
• life, liberty, and the pursuit of hapinness 
• life, liberty, and privacy
• life, liberty, and people

 Montesquieu believed in 

• Life, Liberty and Property
• Checks and Balances 
• Separation of Powers
• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

 Legislative – 

•  the power to interpret and apply the law
•  the power to carry out and enforce laws
• the power to make laws
• I don't know

Executive – 

•  the power to interpret and apply the law
•  the power to carry out and enforce laws
• the power to make laws
• I don't know

Judicial- 

•  the power to interpret and apply the law
•  the power to carry out and enforce laws
• the power to make laws
• I don't know 

 Montesquieu believed that by dividing the powers of government no one branch would become too strong and threaten people’s rights.

• True 
• False 

Which enlightenment thinker believed that a government is needed to keep order?

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Rousseau
• Beccaria

Who believed in a social contract between the people and the government in which people gave up some freedom in order to have their rights protected?

• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes

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

• Rousseau
• Beccaria
• Wollstonecraft
• Locke

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

• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes
• Voltaire