Enlightenment Thinkers

Enlightenment Thinker that argued for free speech.

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Abraham Lincoln

Enlightenment Thinker that people have basic natural rights such as life, liberty, property.

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquiue

• Chuck Norris

Enlightenment Thinker who says there must be a contract that exists between the ruler and the subjects. It is called a social contract.

• Rousseau

• Montesquiue

• Chuck Norris

• Voltaire

Enlightenment Thinker that believed in separation of powers to prevent one branch from having too much power.

• Montesquiue

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Chuck Norris

This Enlightenment Thinker argued that without government life would be "nasty, brutish, and short!"

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Montesquiue

• Abraham Lincoln

The Enlightenment inspired the

• American and French Revolutions.

• World War I

• World War II

• Black Death