Absolutism and Revolutions Review

Rights, such as life and liberty, that a person is born with are called

• divine right

• philosophes

• natural rights

• contract

An agreement between rulers and the people to cooperate for mutual social benefits in pursuit of a better society

• divine right

• free enterprise

• laissez-faire

• social contract

A person(s) who had unlimited authority and almost no legal limit.

• A Monk

• Absolute Monarch

• A Philosophe

• A Salon Manager

Enlightenment thinker who viewed humanity in a negative way and believed people were naturally wicked.

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Thomas Hobbes

Enlightenment thinker who believed in the natural rights of "Life, Liberty, and the right to Property".

• Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Rousseau

Thomas Jefferson was greatly influenced by "John Locke" and took his ideas to write the ____.

• Song "America's Most Wanted"

• The Eagle Code

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Magna Carta

A political idea where the government is divided into branches that share power.

• Checks and Taxes
• Checks and Monarchy
• Checks and Balances
• Natural Laws and State of Nature

Rousseau created the idea of the ______ contract.

• social
• legal

• military

• royal

According to Montesquieu, what is the main purpose of government?

• to maintain law and order, political liberty, and the property of the individual

• to build a wall

• to create laws that everyone agree on

• to open Chic Fil A on Sundays

Direct Democracy is the best form of government

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau