1. Warm-up
What should a government do for its people?

2. Enlightenment

3. What is the Enlightenment?
philosophical movement influenced by the Scientific Revolution, whose goal was to create a better society.

4. John Locke Believed in limited government
the philosophy that government does not have absolute authority
Tabula rasa = everyone is born with a blank mind
Molded by experience
If environments change = people would change = society would change
Wrote the Two Treatises of Government, 1690

5. consent of the governed
the political theory that governments gain their authority from their people
A government is not legitimate if the people do not give their consent.
How do we show our consent?

6. Rights
Unalienable (natural): Rights that cannot be taken away from anyone, Equal: The belief that all persons, regardless of sex, race, ethnicity, age, etc., have the same rights as everyone else.

7. Montesquieu separation of powers checks & balances
Judicial, legislative, & executive
checks & balances
preventing any one person or group from gaining to much power
US Constitution
With your group, create a graphic organizer that displays the three branches of government.
Include at least one picture for each branch.

8. Voltaire religious toleration
deism = universe is like a clock, God (the clockmaker) created it, set it in motion & allows it to run without his interference
Draw a clock. Write down 5 specific choices that you make everyday at their specific times.
Explain why you make the choices you do.

9. Adam Smith laissez-faire - the state should not regulate the economy
Gov’t should only provide
protection (army)
defense (police)
public works (roads,etc)
Create an acrostic poem using laissez-faire.
The words you use should be words that describe what laissez-faire means.

10. Rousseau
social contract- entire society agrees to be governed by its general will
People choose who/how they are governed
education should foster, not restrict, children’s natural instincts
balance emotions & reason

11. Thomas Hobbes State of Nature How ppl would act w/o gov’t State of War
Hobbes believed the state of nature in which man lived before the formation of society was founded on a savage selfishness (think caveman), which drove man to obtain pleasure without concern for justice or mercy toward other men. Humans were guided not by reason and moral ideals but by a ruthless struggle for self- preservation.
State of nature- the philosophy regarding how humans would act in their most basic state without a civil government
“nasty, brutish, short”
No concern for justice or mercy
State of war- Each individual was endowed with the right to do anything they pleased and people were in constant fear for their lives.