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A strong advocate of education for women
Mary Wollstonecraft
Abolishment of torture
Cesare Beccaria
Separation of Church and State
Voltaire
Monarch
King or Queen
Right to bear arms
2nd Amendment
Separation of powers
Montesquieu
Believed in the rights to life, liberty, and property
Locke
Right to rule
Sovereignty
Believed people should give up their rights to gain law and order.
Freedom of the press
1st Amendment
Believed in a direct democracy under the government and freely formed by the people.
Rosseau
Believed that if government wasn’t doing a good job, people should overthrow it.
Best government is one where rulers have total power to keep their people under control
Hobbes
Punishment should fit the crime
Beccaria
Creates a parliament
Magna Carta
I am the Sun.
Louis XIV
Speedy trial
Beccaria
Right to rule comes from God
Divine Right
Checks & Balances
Montesquieu
Right to remain silent and not testify against oneself
5th Amendment
Individual Rights like Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion
Voltaire
Cut off beards if nobles did not pay a tax.
Peter the Great
Urged women to enter male dominated careers of medicine and politics
Wollstonecraft
All people are equal and titles of nobility should be abolished.
Rosseau
Government cannot take property without a trial
4th Amendment