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

A French philosopher who believed in limited government and was against absolute monarchy. He believed that government should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

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

Social Contract

The political theory that the government should be all-powerful and unrestricted. Thomas Hobbes supported this idea; John Locke rejected it.

John Locke supported the right of the people to do this if government failed to protect natural rights.

According to John Locke, these are given by God and cannot be taken by the government. The protection of these is the purpose of the government.

The person proposed that man needed to be ruled by an Absolute Monarchy because people are naturally wicked and selfish.

A gathering of enlightened philosophersduring the Enlightenment

“God hath power to create or destroy, make or unmake, at his pleasure; to give life or send death; to judge…and to be judged (by) none… the same power is had by kings;…”

Which idea is described by this passage?

Peter the Great changed Russia by

“The person of the King is sacred, and to attack him in any way is an attack on religion itself. Kings represent the divine majesty and have been appointed by Him to carry out His purposes. Serving God and respecting kings are bound together.”

—Bishop Jacques Bossuet

This statement describes the philosophy that existed during the

What is the theory where a ruler believes their power comes from God, they only have to answer to God, and they represent God on Earth?

Why did Peter the Great take control of the Russian Orthodox Church?

One of Louis XIV’s major accomplishments was

What form of government did England establish after the English Civil War?

French Enlightenment thinker who frequently targeted the clergy, aristocracy, and the government...

Montesquieu, author of "The Spirit of Laws," believed that dividing government into separate branches would...

A national representative body having supreme legislative powers within England

A major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs

A French writer and philosopher who called for freedom of speech and religious tolerance

Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

A form of government where Parliament makes all of the laws and the monarchy serve a primarily symbolic role and have no power to govern

A term used to describe the philosophical, intellectual, and cultural movement of the 17th and 18th centuries

Writer of the Social Contract

When a government does not hold up their end of the social contract, the people have the right to revolt

This is NOT a quality of an absolute monarch

This is NOT a quality of a constitutional monarch

Which Enlightenment philosopher challenged the Catholic Church and religious intolerance?

The major contribution of the Enlightenment philosophers was the introduction of new ideas about:

The intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of an individual to solve problems was the:

Individuals who opposed Enlightenment thinking attempted to suppress (stop) it by:

Which is NOT a characteristic of a democracy

What is NOT a characteristic of an absolute monarchy?