1.4 The Enlightenment

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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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Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to abolish their government and create a new one?

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Locke

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The rights of life, liberty, and property are called:

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Natural Rights

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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 philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

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True

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Locke believed that a government's power came from its ___________________.

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people

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Which concept of the Enlightenment would the passage most likely support? . . . reason, which is that law teaches all mankind, who would but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
John Locke, Two Treatises on Civil Government, 1689

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People have a right to equality and freedom.

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A group of leaders who united the 13 colonies, declared independence from Great Britain and built the framework of the government for the United States. Many of their ideas came from the Enlightenment philosophers.

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Founding Fathers

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Government or control of a country by its own members rather than by members of a different country.

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self-government

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What are the natural rights according to John Locke?

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Life, liberty and property