1. Enlightened Thinkers
Montesquieu
John Locke
Voltaire
Rousseau

2. Thomas _______ Wrote “Lev____” 1651, is his masterpiece
The _______ needs to control_________.
__________ power for a leader is needed
Absolute materialism; _____ was all that existed
"The life of man is nasty, brutish, and short".
Hobbes wanted a tightly ordered society, ruled by ____ and _______.

3. John ______(1632-1704) Two _______ on Government 1690
__________ the divine rights of kings
_________of government—PROTECTION of NATURAL RIGHTS
Life
Liberty—free choice
Property—own property

4. Locke
_________ can be land, _______, anything that enables you to sustain life.
Every _______ has these rights.
Unalienable Rights—you can not give them up.
No _______ or ________ can take them away—safety in numbers

5. Create a new ___________
If government does not protect your rights
or becomes corrupt
prosperity
_______________
security
persecution
_______ create societies for mutual protection—make sure we get natural rights.
Right of ___________
destroy existing government
Society is a human creation
Create a new ___________

6. BARON DE _________ (1689-1755) Spirit of the Law—1748
believed that all things were made up of rules or laws that never changed.
best governments have power balanced among three groups of officials. (__________ ___ ___________)
His ideas about separation of powers became the basis for the United States _____________.
Local gov’t over ________ gov’t
"In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing."

7. Jean-Jacques _______ 1712-78
__________ ________—1763
For Rousseau the Social Contract is the basic ____ of __________.
Liberty is obedience to the law you have accepted
The people are the source of legitimate ________.
The social contract was______between ___________ and people, but between _________ themselves.
his aim was to create a more virtuous human being. (General Will),

8. Cesare __________ ( )
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (1764)
He applied __________ ideals to crime and ___________.
Government & ________ should be ________
Criminal justice system
Innocent until proven ________.
Gov’t cannot make you _______ against yourself.
Limitation of _______ and ________.
Right to a _______ trial.
Trial by a jury of __________.
______________ should fit the crime

9. Mary __________
Men believed that woman needed to educated to become a better _____ and _________.
Built on Mary Astell’s idea of freedom for women and woman’s education.
Astell “If all men are born _____, how is it that all women born _______?”
Wollstonecraft encouraged women to enter male dominated fields of medicine and politics.

10. AMERICA Enlightened ideas determined who or what America would become.
Our ________ of _________ & ____________ are enlightened documents
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