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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John locke | Believed in the protection of individual rights that included life, liberty, and property. Rejecting the divine right theory of government. |
| Baron Charles de montesquieu | Proposed separating the powers of the government so that the power would not be concentrated in the hands of one person or one group of people |
| Thomas Hobbes | believed in order to keep people from destroying each other, they needed to enter into a "social contract" with an absolute monarch |
| William blackstone | Strong belief in the Ten Commandments and that God's law was to be man's law |
| Voltaire | Often wrote of the need for free speech and religious toleration |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | Wrote "The social contract", he suggested that a state based on a genuine social contract would give men real freedom. |
| Thomas Aquinas | Published ideas in a book titled Summa Theologica, used to prove arguments of Aristotle to prove the most basic religious beliefs with logic and reason. |
| John clavin | Outlined the "doctrine of predestination" and the "doctrine of the elect" in the institutes of the christian religion |
| moses | Was known for leading the Hebrew people from slavery by the Egyptians |