Enlightenment

John Locke had the idea of natural law, which is also referred to as natural rights. What are these rights?

• to vote

• Life, liberty and property

• freedom of speech and religion

• freedom to bear arms

John Locke believed that governments should only exist to serve the will of the people. He believed that members of a society give up some of their power to the government and in return, the government protects the people.

• social contract

• legal contract

• democracy

• natural law

A period in European history that emphasized education and using logic to improve people's lives. Before this, superstition was used to explain the world.

• Enlightenment

• New Age

• Holocaust

• 20th Century

An Unlimited Government where the king or queen have unlimited power

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

Time period in Europe during the 17th & 18th Centuries when Philosophers began applying the concept of reason to the political environment and challenged absolutism (unlimited government).

• Scientific Revolution

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Middle Ages

An Unlimited Government where the king or queen have unlimited power

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

Government where the leader has total power

• Unlimited Government

• Limited Government

Government where the power of the leader has restrictions. Everyone is expected to follow the law.

• Limited Government

• Unlimited Government

Philosopher who believed in natural rights and a social contract in order to have government. Believed the job of government was to protect peoples’ natural rights.

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Locke's natural rights. Everyone is born with these.

• Life, liberty, property

• Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness

• money, cars, houses

• work, religion, freedom