Absolutism, the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.

Match the following

• authority to rule comes from God

• Absolute Monarch

• emphasized use of reason

• Laissez-faire

• ruler has complete power

• Enlightenment

• rights you have from birth

• Natural Rights

• little to no government involvement

• Divine Rights

Argued that government should be LIMITED to protect humans natural rights

• Charles V

• Thomas Hobbes

• George Washington

• John Locke

Which country had a constitutional monarchy?

• France

• Japan

• Russia

• Britain

The power of the human mind to think and understand in a logical way

• reason

• philosophies

• natural rights

• contract

A right, such as life and liberty, that a person is born wth

• divine right

• philosophes

• natural rights

• contract

Baron de Montesquieu believed government should be

• Separating the ruler from the military.

• Dividing powers equally among organizations

• Dividing powers equally among three people

• Dividing powers equally among three branches of government.

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

What is "self-government"?

• an agreement between the people and the government.

• creates natural rights

• self-rule (people can rule themselves)

• people are not able to govern themselves