Enlightenment

How did Hobbes sum up people's quality of life in a state of nature?

• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• poor, nasty, brutish, and short

• fulfilling, long-lived, philosophical, and introspective

• scared, hungry, lonely, and cold

What were the three natural rights John Locke thought that every human had a birth?

• Liberty, Money, Money

• Property, Power, liberty

• Life, money, Property

• Life, Liberty, property

Montesquieu argued that the 3 branches of government should have power over each other and stop a branch if it got too powerful. This is known as ____________.

• Checks and Balances

• Liberty

• Separation of Powers

• Checks of Power

Breaking up power between the 3 branches of government is called ______________.

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Powers

• Liberty

• Checks of Power

To him, what was the best form of government?

• every man for himself

• absolute monarchy

• absolute monarchy

• where each powers (legislative, executive, and judicial) were separate and kept each other in check to prevent any branch from becoming too powerful

Who stated that people have a natural right to preserve themselves by having a legislature?

• Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

• Diderot

Direct Democracy is the best form of government

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

The three inalienable human rights according to John Locked are right to life, liberty, and ____________.

• POWER

• PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

• INDEPENDENCE

• PROPERTY

Which quotation from the Declaration of Independence best supports the main purpose of a nation's government.

• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all mean are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

• ...[To] secure these rights , governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...

• ...[G}overnments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath show, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

• ...[A]s free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.

Thomas Jefferson borrowed many of his ideas from which Enlightenment Philosopher?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Thomas Paine

• John Adams