Civics EOC Review: Enlightenment Ideas of Locke and Montesquieu

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Enlightenment ideas of John Locke

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Key concepts include natural rights, government by consent, and the right to revolution.

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Enlightenment ideas of Montesquieu

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Key concepts include the separation of powers and checks and balances in government.

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Enlightenment ideas and their influence on the Founding

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Analyze how Enlightenment ideas, including Montesquieu’s view of separation of powers and John Locke’s theories related to natural law and Locke’s social contract, influenced the Founding.

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Enlightenment ideas: separation of powers, natural law, and social contract

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Students will identify and describe the Enlightenment ideas of separation of powers, natural law, and social contract.

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Influence of Enlightenment ideas on Founders' beliefs

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Students will examine how Enlightenment ideas influenced the Founders’ beliefs about individual liberties and government.

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Evaluating Montesquieu’s and Locke’s influence

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Students will evaluate the influence of Montesquieu’s and Locke’s ideas on the Founding Fathers.

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Natural rights

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Rights that people are born with and that cannot be taken away.

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Natural law

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A body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct.

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Social contract

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An agreement among people to form a government and abide by its rules.

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Limited government

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A government whose powers are defined and restricted by a constitution.