Locke & Montesquieu

Which Enlightenment thinker argued that all people were born equal and had natural rights to life, liberty, and property?

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

This is the idea that "the people" give the government power to protect their natural rights and must live by the rules?

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Social Contract

• Rule of Law

Montesquieu is most known for his ideas on?

• Social Contract

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Unalienable Rights

What document was most influenced by John Locke's ideas?

• The Constitution

• The Magna Carta

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

Separation of Powers influenced the US Government by providing?

• Checks & Balances

• Natural Rights

• Natural Law

• The Social Contract

Enlightenment thinker John Locke thought that rights come from?

• The government

• The Declaration of Independence

• God or nature

• The king

Johne Locke said that the purpose of government was to?

• protect life, liberty, and property

• fight wars against evil kings

• to provide roads, bridges and parks

• to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Thomas Jefferson described the social contract as?

• natural law

• a declaration of independence

• consent of the governed

• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

The "Enlightenment" was a time known for?

• a lot of crime and poverty

• learning to make the world a better place

• fighting against the British

• returning to the way things used to be

Social Contract & Natural Rights (LIfe, Liberty, & Property)

• John Locke

• Montesqueiu

• Thomas Jefferson