Enlightenment Review

Which philosopher separated the government into three branches of government and argued for separation of powers?

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

"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."

- The Declaration of Independence

This statement is MOST closely connected to what idea/theory?

*HINT: think about the philosopher this is inspired by and his big ideas.

• Social Contract Theory

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Invisible Hand Theory

Man being born with a title to perfect freedom, and enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature, equally with any other man, hath by nature a power, not only to preserve his life, liberty and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men; but to judge of, and punish the breaches of that law in others.

-John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690

John Locke's writing reflects the ideals of the Enlightenment in that?

• government must be ruled by a democracy, rather than by a monarch.

• there is no private property, and therefore no justice or injustice.

• civil society is not possible when men work to protect their property.

• men are created with equal rights and responsibilities under the law of nature.

"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."

This quote from the United States Declaration of Independence is MOST associated with which of these philosophers?

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

According to the ideals of government as espoused by the Enlightenment, all citizens have the right to life, liberty, and property. These rights are known as what?

• civil rights

• state rights

• federal rights

• natural rights

The ideas contained in the Declaration of Independence were MOST influenced by what principle/theory?

• Federal System

• Social Contract Theory

• Absolute Monarchy

• Totalitarianism

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

This quotation has most in common with which set of principles?

• Social Contract Theory

• Marxism

• National Socialism

• Federalism

Man being born with a title to perfect freedom, and enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of the law of nature, equally with any other man, hath by nature a power, not only to preserve his life, liberty and estate, against the injuries and attempts of other men; but to judge of, and punish the breaches of that law in others.

-John Locke, Two Treatises of Government, 1690

John Locke's writing MOST LIKELY reflects the ideals of which movement?

• Imperialism

• Socialism

• Enlightenment

• Romanticism