The Enlightenment CG1.4

Which Enlightenment thinker argued that all people were born equal and had natural rights to life, liberty, and property?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

This is the idea that “the people” give the government power to protect their natural rights and must live by the rules?

• Separation of Powers

              

•     Checks & Balances

              

•       Social Contract

               

•     Rule of Law

Montesquieu is most known for his ideas on?

• Social Contract

• Separation of Powers

• Natural Rights

• Protection of life, liberty, and property

What document was most influenced by John Locke’s ideas?

• The Constitution

• The Magna Carta

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

Separation of Powers influenced the US Government by providing?

• Checks and Balances

• Natural Rights

• Natural Law

• The Social Contract

Enlightenment thinker John Locke thought that rights come from?

• The government

• The Declaration of Independence

• God or nature

• The king

John Locke said that the purpose of government was to?

• protect life, liberty and property

               

• fight wars against evil kings

             

•   to provide roads, bridges and parks

             

• to protect life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Thomas Jefferson described the social contract as?

• natural law

              

•    a declaration of independence

               

•    consent of the governed

               

•   life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

The “Enlightenment” was a time known for?

• a lot of crime and poverty

               

•   learning to make the world a better place

               

•    fighting against the British

               

• returning to the way things used to be

What are natural rights?

• agreements among people relating to their government

• freedoms people possess relating to life, liberty, and property

• ideas about freedom that were first discussed in the American colonies

• rights reserved only for monarchs