Enlightenment Review

What are Checks and Balances

• Prevents one Branch of the Government from becoming to powerful

• Ensures freedoms for all citizens

• Ensures that England can't regain control of the US

• Ensures that the US doesn't take colonies

What was one enlightenment idea that implemented into the US Government

• The idea of natural rights

• Separation of powers

• Speedy and Fair Trial

• All of the other answers

What did the Deceleration of independence do?

• Brought the US closer to the English rule

• Created a democracy

• announced that the US would separate from England

• all the above

Social Contract

• the idea that we give up freedoms to live in a civil society

• Separation of powers

• Laissez-fair

• the Invisible hand

Which philosopher came up with the idea of three branches of government

• Montesque

• Locke

• Wollstonecraft

• Hobbes

Which philosopher came up with the idea that people have natural rights

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesque

• Diderot

Which philosopher came up with the idea that people are selfish and that government is necessary to maintain a free and just society.

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesque

• Voltaire

Natural rights can be taken away

• True

• False

Absolutism was an old idea that gave total and absolute power to a:

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Parliament

• Oligarchy

The divine right of kings stated that a king's power to rule came from:

• The people

• the government

• God

• The nobles