Enlightenment Thinkers

I believe that human beings are naturally wicked and evil. A large authoritarian government, particularly an absolute monarchy, is needed.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

John Locke's three Natural Rights are life, liberty, and ________.

• the pursuit of happiness

• property

• prosperity

• speech

According to Locke, if a government fails to protect Natural Rights, the citizens must:

• Rebel

• Speak out

• Protest

• Do nothing

In The Spirit of Laws, Montesquieu expressed and supported the idea of

• Separation of Powers

• Due Process

• Limited Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

Voltaire: "My trade is to ___________."

• Support the lower class

• Support democracy

• Say what I feel

• Say what I think

The good of the community as a whole, Rousseau said, should be placed above individual interests. This is known as:

• The Social Network

• Checks and Balances

• The Social Contract

• Separation of Powers

This theory stated that the sun - not the Earth - is the center of the universe.

• Geocentric Model

• Heliocentric Model

T/F: The Enlightenment and Scientific Revolutions inspired the United States and French Revolutions.

• True

• False

T/F: Monarchs and others possessing absolute power loved Enlightenment ideas.

• True

• False