1.2 - Enlightenment Thinkers

A "Social Contract" is an agreement between a ruler and who?

• Monarchy

• Dictator

• Citizens

• Aliens

John Locke believed these people had these type of right?

• No Rights

• Freedom Rights

• Natural Rights

• Unnatural Rights

According to John Locke what must the government do with people's rights?

• Get rid of them

• Protect Them

• Get Over them

John Locke inspired the writing of this important document by Thomas Jefferson

• US Constitution

• The Magna Carta

• The Declaration of Independence

• English Bill of Rights

Rousseau believed in the idea of what for the government?

• Majority Rule

• Dictatorship

• Nobody Votes

Baron de Montesquieu developed this idea for government

• One House Congress

• Checks and Balances

• No House Congress

• The President

If Baron de Montesquieu were to visit the United States today, he might be most pleased to see the

• our Declaration of Independents
• our Bill of Rights
• a government-run tax system
• the legislative, executive, and judiciary branches of our government

Why did Thomas Hobbes believe that people needed to be governed by a ruler with absolute power?

• because the ruler will share the power with the people
• because people couldn't be trusted to govern themselves
• because legislators could not make good laws
• because monarchs could not enforce laws themselves

The following ideas come from the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights. Which most closely relates to the work of John Locke?

• innocent until proven guilty
• speedy and public trial
• life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• freedom of speech and press

This image is most closely related to which thinker?

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu