A voluntary agreement among individuals to secure their rights and welfare by creating a government and abiding by its rules.

• Capitalism

• Democracy

• Social Contract

• Business Agreement

This person believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority.

Many political philosophers met and discussed their ideas on government during the 1600's and 1700's. The was also known as the _______________ Period.

• Enlightenment

• Lighted

• Victorian

• Revolutionary

He established "inalienable rights".

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

He believed that people created government and chose to be governed, by contract, between the ruler and the ruled.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

He believed that people formed a government and made a contract with each other, not a ruler.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

He believed that people would vote on all decisions and everyone would accept the community decision.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

He believed that the best way to ensure natural rights was to limit government's powers.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

He believed believed in dividing the government power into separate branches in order limit corruption.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

French Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech and religion

• Voltaire

• Denis Diderot

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke