The Enlightenment

Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Locke

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

This image is most closely related to which thinker?

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu

This image is most closely related to which thinker?

• Montesquieu
• Locke
• Beccaria
• Hobbes

Which idea below is Montesquieu's?

• Civic Virtue
• Tabula Rasa
• Natural Rights
• Checks and Balances

What was the purpose of separating the 3 branches of government, according to Montesquieu?

• protect the liberties of the people

• make government more efficient

• promote reform in government

• strengthen the monarchy

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

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