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 that women's education should be the same as men's?

• Rousseau
• Wollstonecraft
• Locke
• Hobbes

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

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

This thinker believed that humanity was inherently evil.  Laws and governments are needed to protect people from each other. 

• Hobbes
• Montesquieu
• Roussoue
• Voltaire

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