8 Main Ideas Frame

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Enlightened Thinkers (Not Quite Chapter 2) Is about …

Who were these, ‘thinkers’, and what was their influence on our Forefathers… What was their influence on the Declaration of
Independence? What was their influence on the Constitution?

John Locke Thomas Hobbes Baron de Montesquieu Voltaire

he became a very successful

Human Nature:
student and one of his essays called "Essays on The Law What about Government’s Power? Separation of Government: Political Activist against?
of Nature" quickly spread into the course of his teaching he believed that there should be a king.it means more sure Montesquieu believed government should be into separate he was a courageous crusader against tyranny, bigotry, and
duties. and consistent exercise of political authority. branches and each branch should have its own power cruelty

Natural Rights of Man:

life, liberty, and property and is the preservation of mankind

he insistent on the equality of

Social Contract: people including women Why Exiled from France?
for mocking the duc d'Orleans

Rousseau Denis Diderot Adam Smith

Man’s Natural State: Enlightenment Encyclopedia: Pioneer of Political Economy:

morally neutral and peaceful condition this encyclopedia was made to change the way people think the wealth of nations was the first comprehensive system
and for people to be able to inform themselves

Human Development: Government Involved in Business:

he believed that one is born pure untill one's interaction with he believes there should be limited roles for the government
the environment caused negative effects on development

At ‘odds’ with the Aristocracy? ‘Invisible Hand’:

this was a book written by him that says this mechanism
democracies have no need for nobility can benefits both the economy and society thanks to self-
interested individual

So what? What is important to understand about this?