Enlightenment

______ believed in the separation of powers in the government.

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Which is NOT a goal of enlightened thinkers during the Age of Reason?

• They wanted people to remain uneducated and let the government do the thinking for them.

• They wanted to improve the way people lived.

• They wanted people to think clearly and logically without letting their feelings guide them.

• They wanted to use scientific reasoning to examine every part of society.

What were Voltaire’s ideas regarding government and religion?

• He wanted religious authorities to govern.

• He wanted government to depend on religion.

• He stressed equality between government and religion.

• He advocated religious tolerance and the separation of religion and government.

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to abolish their government and create a new one? (Consent of the governed)

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Voltaire
• Rousseau

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

• Reformation

• Glorious Revolution

• Renaissance

• Scientific Revolution.

The Enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth
• a time when science ruled
• a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world
• a time when technology ruled

The Enlightenment philosophers believed that the power of government is derived from

• Divine right of rulers

• a strong military

• the middle class

• those who are governed

The idea that people give up some of their power to the government in exchange for the protection of the laws that government provides.

• Social Contract Theory

• Divine Right

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Natural Rights

Locke argued that specific rights, duties, structure, and function of governments should be...

• in citizen's hearts

• in a constitution

• talked about, frequently

• a monarch's secret plan