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The Enlightenment Influence: Revolutionary Thinkers
John Locke, Rousseau, The Declaration of Independence and Montesquieu
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History
11th Grade
09/12/2011

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What book did John Locke write?
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Two Treatises on Government
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What book did Rousseau write?
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Social Contract
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What book did Montesquieu write?
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Spirit of Laws
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According to Locke, how should the government protect peoples' natural rights?
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They should preserve people's property, and not enslave them.
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According to Locke, what should happen if the peoples' natural rights aren't protected?
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The people have the right and duty to rise up and overthrow their government, establishing a new one in its stead.
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According to Rousseau, what is the difference between natural liberty and civil liberty?
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Natural liberty = the unlimited ability to do whatever you want, unchecked

Civil liberty = being subject to only laws established for the good of the people
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What two theories did Montesquieu write of?
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Checks and balances/a three-branch government
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