1. What is the name of the period in time in which people in 18th century Europe began to stress the importance of thinking and reasoning, and education could help understand and help solve society’s problems?

2. What is a principle of the federal U.S. government where each branch has power over another branch?

3. What is the belief that individuals have basic rights and cannot be taken away; life, liberty, and property?

4. When a group of people give up some freedoms to agree to organize society, defining the rights, duties, and responsibilities of the governed and the government?

5. Describe what the state of nature is according to John Locke.

“ A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may be defined as a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people”How does this quote reflect the influence of the Enlightenment ideas on the Founding Fathers?

1. How are the Enlightenment ideas that influenced the Founding Fathers reflected in modern institutions?

10. Which right is an example of Enlightenment Ideas?

11. The writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment believed the government decisions should be based on

12. Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in

13. Which philosopher of the Enlightenment defined separation of powers and a system of checks and balances?

14. These are limited imposed on all the branches of a government by vesting in each branch the right to amend or void those acts of another branch that fall within its power.

Which of the following was not an idea from the Enlightenment?

The major contribution of the Enlightenment philosophers was the introduction of new ideas about

In exploring the relationship between governments and people, Thomas Hobbes argued that governments resulted from a social contract to maintain an orderly society. John Locke, another philosopher of the Enlightenment, inspired American revolutionarie

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