Enlightenment

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What is another name for the Enlightenment?

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The Age of Reason

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People give up some of their freedom in exchange for protection of their rights in the ...

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Social Contract

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Under the idea of the "consent of the governed," what happens if government fails to protect the peoples' rights?

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The people would have a right to revolt.

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French Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech and religion

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Voltaire

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

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people

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A time period, mostly in the 1700's, where philosophers and thinkers thought science and reason could improve all humanity.

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Enlightenment