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Enlightenment Thinkers Flashcards

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John Locke

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-Rights for the individual
-Hated dictatorships
-Created natural rights (Life liberty, Property)
-Influenced declaration of independence

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-Rights for the individual
-Hated dictatorships
-Created natural rights (Life liberty, Property)
-Influenced declaration of independence

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John Locke

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Who created Natural rights/ what are they?

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John Locke, Life Liberty, Property

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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-democracy is best
-government should protect people
-rights for individual
-Created social contract

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-democracy is best
-government should protect people
-rights for individual
-Created social contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Who created the Social Contract?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Baron De Montesquieu

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–rights of individual
-not all power should be given to one person
-branches of government

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Tree metaphor for government (branches)

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Thomas Hobbes

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-Humans are naturally evil
-people need an absolute monarch to control them

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-Humans are naturally evil
-people need an absolute monarch to control them

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Thomas Hobbes

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Voltaire

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-religious freedom
-reason and tolerance

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-religious freedom
-reason and tolerance

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Voltaire

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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-Womens rights
-Ideas don’t catch on for a couple of centuries

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-Womens Rights
-Ideas dont catch on for a couple of centuries

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Cesare Beccaria

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-Punishment has to fit the crime
-Punishment does not have to be public humiliation
-Influenced 8th amendment (no cruel or unusual punishment)

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-Punishment has to fit the crime
-Punishment does not have to be public humiliation
-Influenced 8th amendment (no cruel or unusual punishment)

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Cesare Beccaria

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Whose ideas influenced the 8th amendment/ what is the 8th amendment?

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Cesare Beccaria, no cruel or unusual punishment

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