Enlightenment philosophers

Thomas Hobbes believed that people needed a strong ruler or government because....

• "people act in their own selfish interests if they are left alone."

• we are always peaceful and

• "did not believe that people should be trusted to make their own decisions".

• love our neighbor as we do ourselves

John Locke believed that ​ (a)   should be ​ (b)   .

• individual rights
• group life insurance
• protected
• ignored

This thing is created when people have direct say in the way their society id governed.

Baron De Montesquieu contributed to these two major features of government in the American government:

• political parties

• Checks and Balances

• communism

• Checks and balances

Baron de Montesquieu believed in a three branch government system to protect the citizens of the country. He also believed that they should have ______, where they could worship freely without prosecution.

Mary Wollstonecraft influenced the following women's rights figures, or events, in her quest for equal rights and opportunities.

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• civic virtues

• Susan B. Anthony

• Seneca Falls Convention

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their ,Creator with certain unalienable rights,.....are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

Which philosopher influenced this writer?

• Dyson Sphere

• Sapere Aude

• John Locke

• judas priest

Answer explanation

Thomas Jefferson was the "Father of the Declaration of Independence"

Unalienable rights are used to protect all citizens of a country. What are some attributes of Unalienable rights.

a

b

c

d

cannot be taken away

spoken by John Locke

used in the Declaration of Independence

supposed to keep the king in powere

used in the Magna Carta

protected by the Bill of Rights

championed by Vitreous Solution