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Enlightenment Sci
Question | Answer |
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Enlightenment | Rejected traditional views on government and relied on human reason |
Hobbes | Wrote leviathan. The only enlightenment thinker who supported absolute monarchs |
Voltaire | Believed in freedom of speech and religion “I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it!” |
John Locke | Believed in a person’s natural rights. The right to life, liberty, and property |
Montesquieu | Gave us the notion of 3-branches of government / checks and balances |
Rousseau | The social contract The people give power to the government, if the government fails to protect the people, the people have the right to overthrow it and set up a new one that will. |
Adam Smith | Wrote the two treatises of government. In it he describes the basis for capitalism and laissez-faire economics |
Natural Rights | People are born with them and no one can take them away...Life Liberty, & Property |
laissez-faire | "Hands Off" Government should not interfere with business |