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Enlightenment and Democratic Revolutions

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Social Studies

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8th Grade

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01/09/2012

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John Locke

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Government is in place only to get the people's wishes done. If it does not, the people may revolt.

Wrote Two Treatises on Government (1690)

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Thomas Hobbes

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Believed absolute monarchy was needed to control selfish and ambitious people

Wrote Leviathan (1651)

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Voltaire

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Proposed tolerance, freedom of religion/speech.

Wrote Candide (1759)

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Rousseau

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Advocated Democracy

Wrote The Social Contract (1762)

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Montesquieu

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Recognized liberty as a natural right.

Wrote The Spirit of the Laws (1748)