1. People of the Enlightenment -1600s & 1700s
Name From Wrote Main Ideas
Locke
Hobbes
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Voltaire
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2. People of the Enlightenment -1600s & 1700s
-Observation: govt. exists to “preserve life, liberty, & property”
-Hypothesis: people should be sovereign (rule)
-Hypothesis: monarchs not chosen by God
Locke
From: England
Wrote: Two Treatises on Government
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3. People of the Enlightenment -1600s & 1700s
-Observation: Life without govt. is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, & short.”
-Hypothesis: Absolute govt. needed to control evil behavior (but not divine right)
Hobbes
From: England
Wrote: Leviathan
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4. People of the Enlightenment -1600s & 1700s
-Observation: “When the legislature & executive are united in the same person, there is no liberty (freedom)”
-Hypothesis: Govt. must have “Separation of Powers” -- 3 branches
Montesquieu
From: France
Wrote: The Spirit of Laws
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5. People of the Enlightenment -1600s & 1700s
-Observation: “man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
-Hypothesis: Govt. is contract between people & rulers. People can break it (rebel)
Rousseau
From: France
Wrote: The Social Contract
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6. People of the Enlightenment -1600s & 1700s
-Observation: Life is better with liberty
-Hypothesis: Freedom of speech & religion, separation of church & state
-“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. “
Voltaire
From: France
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8. People of the Enlightenment -1600s & 1700s
Name From Wrote Main Ideas
Two Treatises on Gov’t
-Observation: gov’t exists to “preserve life, liberty, & property”
-Hypothesis: people should be sovereign (rule)
-Hypothesis: monarchs not chosen by God
England
Locke
-Observation: Life without gov’t is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, & short.”
-Hypothesis: Absolute gov’t needed to control evil behavior (not divine right)
England
Leviathan
Hobbes
-Observation: “When the legislature & executive are united in the same person, there is no liberty (freedom)”
-Hypothesis: Gov’t must have “Separation of Powers” -- 3 branches
The Spirit of Laws
France
Montesquieu
-Observation: “man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.”
-Hypothesis: Gov’t is contract between people & rulers. People can break it (rebel)
The Social Contract
France
Rousseau
-Observation: Life is better with liberty Hypothesis: Freedom of speech & religion, separation of church & state -“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. “
France
Voltaire
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