Enlightenment thinkers

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

Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are _______________.

• pure and innocent
• selfish and wicked

Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?

• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Wollstonecraft
• Hobbes

A social contract is 

• is for the king to form a community to protect themselves.
• is for the people in a community to protect themselves.
• is an agreement between the people and the king in order to share power
• is an agreement between the people and the king in order to share power

If the king breaks his promise to respect the rights of his individual subjects 

• they have the right to rename the country 
• they have the right to become king 
• they have the right to leave the country
• they have the right to rebel against his authority

 Montesquieu believed in 

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

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

• True 
• False