The Enlightenment Thinkers

Believed in freedom of speech and religion

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Becarria

Wealth of Nations and supported laissez-faire economy

• Thomas Hobbes

• Adam Smith

• Mary Wollenstonecraft

• Rousseau

Favored monarchy that relied on a social contract

• John Locke

• Montesquie

• Napoleon

• Thomas Hobbes

Believed in limited goverment and natural rights

• Louis XIV

• Rousseau

• John Locke

• Adam Smith

Believed in no cruel and unusual punishment

• Becarria

• William of Orange

• James II

• Mary Wollenstonecraft

Believed women should have equal say in the government

• Teresa of Aviles

• Mary Wollenstonecraft

• Becarria

• Voltaire

Believed in separation of powers to keep the gov't in check

• Napoleon

• Philip II

• Mary Stuart

• Montesquie

Good gov't must protect the rights of individual freedoms

• Becarria

• Frederick the Great

• Montesquie

• Rousseau