Enlightenment

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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Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True
• False

Natural Rights

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

According to John Locke, why are governments created?

• God gives monarchs a divine right to rule over their people
• People are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler to create order
• People set up governments to protect their lives and property
• Civil government must be established to offset the power of the church

Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to abolish their government and create a new one?

• Montesquire
• Locke
• Voltaire
• Rousseau

The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.

• a natural law
• checks and balances
• a social contract
• laissez-faire

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

• Philosophers
• Democracy
• Social Contract
• Divine Right of Kings

People in a society give up some of their rights in exchange for protection.

• Social Contract
• Enlightenment
• State of Nature
• Revolution