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What is the name for the laws that govern human nature?
Natural Laws
What is it called when people give up the state of nature to live in an organized society?
Social Contract
What was the name given to French Enlightenment thinkers?
Philosophes
What is the name of the economic policy of allowing businesses to operate with little or no government interference?
Laissez faire
Enlightenment thinkers who focused on economic reform were known as __________.
Physiocrats
Whose most famous writing was Leviathan?
Thomas Hobbes
Who wrote Two Treatises of Government?
John Locke
Who is famous for this quote: “I do not agree with a word that you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it”?
Voltaire
Who wrote The Spirit of the Laws?
Montesquieu
Who wrote The Social Contract?
Rousseau
What was Adam Smith’s book called?
The Wealth of Nations
What did Montesquieu write?
The Spirit of the Laws
Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
Mary Wollstonecraft
What did Rousseau write?
The Social Contract
What was Denis Diderot famous for writing?
The Encyclopedia
Which Enlightenment thinker supported absolute monarchs?
Thomas Hobbes
Which Enlightenment thinker believed that people were born with certain natural rights?
John Locke
What Enlightenment thinker supported the idea of the separation of powers?
Montesquieu
What Enlightenment thinker defended people’s right to free speech?
Voltaire
What Enlightenment thinker supported the idea of “majority rules”?
Rousseau
What Enlightenment author’s writings are the basis for parts of the Declaration of Independence?
John Locke
From who did the framers of the Constitution get the idea to separate powers between 3 branches of government?
Montesquieu
What Enlightenment thinker’s ideas became the 1 st Amendment?
Voltaire
What Enlightenment thinker’s idea of “majority rules” is the basis for U.S. democracy?
Rousseau
What Enlightenment thinker would have opposed the U.S. Constitution?
Thomas Hobbes