Enlightenment Thinkers

Who believed that the church and state should be separate?

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

The source of power in a ___________ comes from the people.

• Band

• School

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

What is the social contract?

• an agreement to take anything a person desires

• an agreement to buy something

• an agreement to overcome the state of nature and create a government

• the life people lived before government and society existed

Select the THREE natural rights Locke identified.

• Life

• Services

• Liberty

• Property

Rousseau believed the government should follow majority rule. What is majority rule?

• Government follows what a minority of people want.

• Government follows what one ruler says.

• Government agrees to give people protection

• Government follows what more than half of the population wants.

What did Montesquieu suggest about checks and balances?

• countries should have an elected leader

• countries should have two executives to check each other

• branches of gov't should be balanced so that no branch was too powerful

• gov't should give a person peace of mind

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

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people were born good, but society corrupted them.  

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

What is another name for the Enlightenment?

• The Age of Reason
• The Age of Great Philosophers
• The Age of Religion
• The Age of Revolution

According to John Locke, why are governments created?

• God gives monarchs a divine right to rule over their people
• People are naturally selfish and need a strong ruler to create order
• People set up governments to protect their lives and property
• Civil government must be established to offset the power of the church