The Enlightenment

Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed… whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government.

Declaration of Independence, 1776

• Montesquieu

• Beccaria

• Voltaire

• John Locke

What Enlightenment thinker is most associated with the concept of checks and balances?

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

Which Enlightenment thinker came up with the concept of natural rights?

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Rousseau

Which is not considered a natural right?

• Life

• Liberty

• Healthcare

• Property

Which Enlightenment thinker came up with the concept of separation of church and state?

• Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Voltaire

Thomas Hobbes believed that people were naturally evil and needed a strong government to control them.

• True

• False

 Montesquieu believed that by dividing the powers of government no one branch would become too strong and threaten people’s rights.

• True 
• False 

Wrote about people’s civil rights in the legal system and the rights

they deserved as citizens of a city or country.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Cesare Bone-

  sana Beccaria

• Baron de Montesquieu

A social contract is 

• is for the king to form a community to protect themselves.
• is for the people in a community to protect themselves.
• is an agreement between the people and the king in order to share power
• is an agreement between the people and the king in order to share power

If the king breaks his promise to respect the rights of his individual subjects 

• they have the right to rename the country 
• they have the right to become king 
• they have the right to leave the country
• they have the right to rebel against his authority