Age of Enlightenment

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

What did Thomas Hobbes believe?

• Humans should hurt other humans
• Humans were naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy
• Humans are all so kind and wonderful
• Humans should go to church every day

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes

John Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people’s natural rights.

• True
• False 

During the Enlightenment, many people started to place their faith in ___.

• the church

• the military

• reason

• science

A government leader who has all the power

• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Absolute Monarchy
• Separation of Powers

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness

• Natural Rights
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Divine Right of Kings

This philosopher believed in freedom of speech and freedom of religion

• Montesquieu
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed natural laws governed economics.

• Voltaire
• Denis Diderot
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Adam Smith

What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?

• natural rights

• natural laws

• social contract

• divine right