John Locke

The political theory that God selects the monarch and therefore all should obey. Locke dismissed this idea.

• divine right of kings

• papal authority

• Godly guidance in governance

• social contract theory

What are our natural rights according to Jefferson?  (He got the idea from John Locke, but he changed the last right.)

• Freedom of speech, religion, and press

• Life, liberty, and property

• Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

• Voting, rebelling, and health

Which Enlightenment thinker argued that all people were born equal and had natural rights to life, liberty, and property?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

Read the following excerpt and answer the question below.

. . . to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That 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 new Government. -Declaration of Independence Which Enlightenment principle most influenced the ideas in this excerpt?

• John Locke's idea of the social contract

• Thomas Hobbes’s idea of natural equality

• Montesquieu’s idea of separation of powers

• Voltaire’s idea of the importance of toleration

Under John Locke, what type of government was he looking for?

• Absolute Monarchy

• No Government! Free world order!

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

This is the idea that “the people” give the government power to protect their natural rights and must live by the rules?

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Social Contract

• Rule of Law

According to John Locke, laws should be enacted to protect our________________rights

• natural

• lawful

• separate

• unnatural

In John Locke's theory, a government must find a balance between _______________ and ________________.

• participation and rights

• protection and rights

• people and possessions

• freedom and nature

The three "big" natural rights are:

• life, a big house, money

• life, liberty, marriage

• life, children, property

• life, liberty, property

John Locke is also known for is ideas about the __________contract

• special

• societal

• social

• sincere