Enlightenment Review

The Enlightenment was a period known for:

• emphasizing reason and individualism

• promoting medieval religious beliefs

• focusing on feudal traditions

• rejecting scientific progress

The key elements of representative democracy and their historical development include:

• Elected officials, rule of law, regular elections, and gradual expansion of voting rights

• Absolute monarchy, hereditary rule, and lack of citizen participation

• Direct voting on all laws by every citizen without representatives

• Rule by a single leader with no checks or balances

Those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or gov’t, and so are universal, fundamental, and inalienable.

• Natural Rights

• Civil Rights

• Legal Rights

• Constitutional Rights

The success of the Scientific Revolution (1500-1600s) made people question old ________ systems.

• belief

• economic

• transportation

• culinary

Which of the following was a result of the spread of enlightenment ideas?

• A) People started to fight for change

• B) People became less interested in politics

• C) Governments became more strict

• D) Economic problems increased

Who came up with the idea of natural rights (life, liberty & property)

• Rousseau

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

John Locke supported the idea of a ________ and believed that if your government abuses your rights, you can overthrow it.

• social contract

• divine monarchy

• absolute dictatorship

• hereditary aristocracy

Rousseau supported a ________ where all citizens were directly involved.

• direct democracy

• monarchy

• oligarchy

• representative democracy

Which philosophers strongly supported the idea of a (though one thinker differed in how he defined the social contractconcept from the other 2)

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

What happens if the government misuses power according to the social contract theory?

• The people can replace or overthrow the government.

• The government becomes more powerful.

• Citizens lose all their rights permanently.

• The government is automatically dissolved.