Unit 6 AOL Review

The influence of the Reformation was reflected in which Enlightenment idea?

• accepting social traditions

• organizing political parties

• supporting popular uprisings

• challenging established beliefs

When Louis XIV said, "I am the state," what kind of government is this reflective of?

• a constitutional theocracy

• an absolute monarchy

• an authoritarian oligarchy

• a direct democracy

Which political system did King Louis XIV support?

• direct democracy

• state socialism

• absolute monarchy

• constitutional republic

Speaker A: "The rule of law is more powerful than the rule of the tyrant" - Simon Bolivar

Speaker B: "Whoever has the...supreme power... is bound to govern by established standing laws." - John Locke

What do both of these speakers share in common?

• support for an absolute monarchy

• disdain for democracy

• a dislike of absolute monarchy

• a preference for theocracy

Which of the following Enlightenment thinkers proposed the idea that the executive branches should appoint federal judges and the judicial branch should be able to declare an executive action unconstitutional and that both of these branches should be able to check eachother?

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

Locke and Rousseau would most likely support the following...

• a return to feudalism

• a government ruled by a divine right monarchy

• a society ruled by the catholic church

• a society in which people choose the ruler

Which enlightenment thinker believed that the people have the right to overthrow a tyrannical government?

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

The political ideas of Thomas Jefferson were greatly influenced by such Enlightenment thinkers as

• Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

• John Locke and Voltaire

• Plato and Aristotle

• Niccolò Machiavelli and Lorenzo de Medici

Montequieu supported the idea that government should be based on which principle?

• majority rule

• divine right monarchy

• separation of powers

• dictatorship of the proletariat

Which principle would the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire most likely support?

• traditional class privleges

• papal authority

• freedom of speech

• absolute monarchy