Enlightenment Ideas 2

1. How did John Locke define natural rights? 

• life, liberty, and death
• life, death, and taxes
• life, time, and social contract
• life, liberty, and property

John Locke argued that life, liberty, and property were examples of these:

• separation of powers
• social contract
• natural rights
• monarchy

According to this theory, people agree to obey the laws and by doing so the government will protect their natural rights.

• separation of powers
• social contract
• natural law
• natural rights

According to this theory credited to Baron Montesquieu powers should be separated into 3 branches of government with no one branch having more power than the other.

• natural rights

• social contract

• separation of powers

• limited government

This idea works together with separation of powers and allows each branch to limit the powers of the others.

• social contract

• natural rights

• separation of powers

• checks and balances

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

-Excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, 1776

Which of the Enlightenment Period ideas would be best represented in the quote from the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Hobbes (Social Contract)

• Baron Montesquieu (Separation of Powers)

• John Locke (Natural Law/Rights)

• Founding Fathers (Rule of Law)

What document was most influenced by John Locke’s ideas?

• The Constitution

• The Magna Carta

• The Mayflower Compact

• Declaration of Independence

Enlightenment thinker John Locke thought that rights come from?

• The government

• The Declaration of Independence

• God or nature

• The king

How did Thomas Jefferson describe John Locke's idea of social contract in the Declaration of Independence? Think "permission of the people."

• natural law

• a declaration of independence

• consent of the governed

• life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

-Excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, 1776

Based on this excerpt what are natural rights? (Hint: Focus on the key word CREATOR)

• God-given rights that all people should have

• rights that exist in America but not in Europe

• rights granted by English kings to their subjects

• rights that can only be earned through bloodshed