History Final

people have a say, Locke?

all power is in the hands of the monarch- hobbes

all humans have rights from birth, Locke

government can't control what you say, Voltaire

they wanted the same natural rights that men had

Includes ideas of enlightened thinkers ie Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, social contract, branches(judicial, legilsative, executive), checks and balances

• US- George Washington/writers of constition
• Prussia- Frederick the Great/ Voltaire
• Russia- Catherine the Great/ Voltaire, Diderot
• Hapsburg- Joseph II/ Enlightenment in general

was a time when people re-examined traditional beliefs developed during the age of reason

• social contract-agreement that gave up the state of nature for organized society
• absolute monarchy
• wrote leviathan

• natural rights- all humans
• two treatises of government
• rejected absolute monarchy
• he liked people's ability to revolt against government

• spirit of the laws
• liked britain's limited monarchy
• separation of powers

• freedom of speech
• detested slave trade
• offended church

• encyclopedia
• denounced slavery

• most controversial
• people were basically good, corrupt by society
• wrote the social contract
• hated all oppression
• government should moderately control, and be elected by people

• the wealth of nations
• free market
• laissez faire