EVALUATE-Enlightenment Locke & Montesquieu

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

• a. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• b. Baron de Montesquieu

• c. Thomas Hobbes

• d. John Locke

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

• a. Separation of Powers

• b. Checks & Balances

• c. Social Contract

• d. Rule of Law

3. Montesquieu is most known for his ideas on?

• a. Social Contract

• b. Separation of Powers

• c. Natural Rights

• d. Protection of life, liberty, and property

4. Separation of Powers influenced the US Government by providing?

• a. Checks & Balances

• b. Natural Rights

• c. Natural Law

• d. The Social Contract

5. Enlightenment thinker John Locke thought that rights come from?

• a. The government

• b. The Declaration of Independence

• c. God or nature

• d. The king

6. John Locke said that the purpose of government was to?

• a. protects life, liberty and property

• b. fight wars against evil kings

• c. to provide roads, bridges and parks

• d. to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

7. Thomas Jefferson described the social contract as?

• a. natural law

• b. a declaration of independence

• c. consent of the governed

• d. life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

8. The “Enlightenment” was a time known for?

• a. a lot of crime and poverty

• b. learning to make the world a better place

• c. fighting against the British

• d. returning to the way things used to be