Enlightenment thinkers and limiting government

If Baron de Montesquieu were to visit the United States today, he might be most pleased to see the

• our Declaration of Independents
• our Bill of Rights
• a government-run tax system
• the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches of our government

Why did Thomas Hobbes believe that people needed to be governed by a ruler with absolute power?

• because the ruler will share the power with the people
• because people couldn't be trusted to govern themselves
• because legislators could not make good laws
• because monarchs could not enforce laws themselves

This image is most closely related to which thinker?

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu

This image is most closely related to which thinker?

• Montesquieu
• Locke
• Beccaria
• Hobbes

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

A "Social Contract" is an agreement between a ruler and who?

• Monarchy

• Dictator

• Citizens

• Aliens

John Locke believed these people had these type of right?

• No Rights

• Freedom Rights

• Natural Rights

• Unnatural Rights

According to John Locke what must the government do with people's rights?

• Get rid of them

• Protect Them

• Get Over them

Why was the Magna Carta important for the development of democracy?

• The Magna Carta limited the King's power and prevented absolutism from taking hold in England.

• Parliament became more powerful than the monarch.

• It guaranteed liberty to all.

• It outlawed slavery.

What document established a tradition of direct democracy in New England?

• US Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact