The Enlightenment
What is the principle that allows government to limit the power of other branches preventing one branch from becoming too powerful?
What are checks and balances?
He believed government was necessary because people were naturally self-interested and life without government could become chaotic.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
What are basic rights that people are born with?
What are natural rights?
What type of government has a king or queen where their powers are limited through a constitution?
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
What revolution was influenced by Enlightenment ideas?
What is the American Revolution?
What is the thought that Kings and Queens had the right to rule.
What is the Divine right of the King?
Who is the philosopher that supported capitalism?
Who is Adam Smith?
What is the idea that government power should be divided into separate parts?
What is separation of powers?
What government is ruled by religious officials and based primarily on religious law?
What is a Theocracy?
What is the idea that nobody is above the law, even government officials.
What is the rule of law?
What did Rousseau mean by the "will of the people"?
What is government should reflect the will of the people.
What philosopher believed in the separation of powers?
Who is Montesquieu?
What is the agreement between people and government?
What is the social contract?
A government controlled by a small group of people, often wealthy, powerful, or influential individuals.
What is an Oligarchy?
What values do we still have today from Enlightenment?
What are rights/freedom/equality?
The movement that inspired the Enightenment
What is the Scientific Revolution?
What philosopher believed in the social contract?
Who is Rousseau
A system in which government power is divided among different branches so that no single branch becomes too powerful.
What is separation of powers?
What is a republic?
What is a government where citizens elect representatives to make decisions for them?
What type of government was influenced by Enlightenment ideas?
What is democracy?
Why did people begin to question authority?
They wanted facts, logic, and fairness
What were Locke's three natural rights?
What are life, liberty, and property?
What should the government do for its citizens?
Protect rights and serve the people
What is the idea that government has the power and authority to make and enforce laws within their own territory?
What is sovereignty?
Why does the Enlightenment still matter today?
Why it shaped modern laws and rights?