MISC
What are our three natural rights?
This philosopher did not trust people to govern themselves. Instead he thought that because people were selfish and brutish in nature, they needed an absolute monarch to control them. Also came up with the social contract
What is Thomas Hobbes
At the time of the Enlightenment, England's monarchy would be considered...
a limited monarchy
The two groups that the enlightenment aimed to change the relationship between.
What is the people and the government?
Perfected the telescope
Who is Galileo?
What are the three roles of government?
Make, enforce, and interpret laws.
Enlightenment thinker who wanted religious tolerance and free speech.
Voltaire.
The two bodies of Parliament
What is the House of Lords and House of Commons
The justification for the rulers to have absolute power that says power comes from God.
Divine right
Invented calculus and discovered gravity.
Who is Sir Issac Newton
What did Diderot do?
Write the Encyclopedia.
the process of bringing the monarchy back through Charles II after the time of Oliver Cromwell is known as
People give up some freedom and in return their government protects their individual liberties
What is Social Contract Theory?
According to Locke what is fundamental purpose of government
What is the protection of the natural rights of people?
Believed that the government should function using a system of checks and balances through a separation of powers.
What is Montesquieu
The English Revolution was finalized by the signing of what?
The English Bill of Rights
The distribution of powers to more than one branch of government is known as...
Separation of powers
The model of the solar system with the Sun in the center is known as...
Heliocentric model
Lockes ideas of natural rights are seen most easily in what American founding document, and who wrote it
Declaration of independence and Thomas Jefferson
Believed the government should function off direct democracy, meaning it abides by the "general will" of the people.
Who is Rousseau
As a result of England's monarchy being limited without any fighting or bloodshed, their revolution was known as...
The Glorious revolution
The right that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment.
What is habeas corpus?
Who discovered the heliocentric model?
A) Kepler. B) Galileo. C) Copernicus. D) Newton
Copernicus