Age of Enlightenment

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The Enlightenment is

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a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world

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Enlightenment philosopher who believed men and women should be equal

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

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John Locke

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Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

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Montesquieu

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Enlightenment philosopher who believed people give the government the ability to rule and in return the government should protect the will of the people.

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Rousseau

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Natural Rights: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness., Life, Liberty, and Property, Freedom, Rights to say what we want, when we want to.

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Life, Liberty, and Property

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Social Contract: Government protect people, people follow(give power) to the government, Government protects people and people don't complain., People cannot trust a government., People must trust the government and in return they cannot have a say in government.

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Government protect people, people follow(give power) to the government

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The best government, said which of the following men, is achieved by the separation of powers?

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Montesqiueu

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The Enlightenment?

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was based upon the assumption that science and reason can explain all things.

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The ideas of Locke and Rousseau are found MOST easily in which of these documents? Options: The Declaration of Independence, The Communist Manifesto, The Gettysburg Address, The United Nation's Charter

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The Declaration of Independence