Enlightenment Review
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- Q1The two main ideas of the Enlightenment in solving social and political problems are:Religion and PassionThinking and VotingLogic and ReasonPolitical Science and Reason60s
- Q2Who is credited with devising the constitutional principle of separation of power and balance of power in government?AristotleMontesquieuHobbesJefferson60s
- Q3The political theory that people form government for their protection and that government rules only with the approval of those people is called the (a)Divine Right of Kings TheorySocial Contract TheoryImplied Consent TheoryEvolutionary Theory60s
- Q4Who wrote that all men are created with equal rights and responsibilites under the law of nature?Thomas AquinasJohn LockePlatoGeorge Washington60s
- Q5Who was the one who incorporated the ideas of John Locke and Montesquieu into the Declaration of Independence?Ronald ReaganAbraham LincolnPatrick HenryThomas Jefferson60s
- Q6This philosophical movement, The Enlightenment, applied reason not only to the natural world but also to?Nuclear proliferatonAbsolutismVoltaireReligious tolerance60s
- Q7Government, as a purpose, is to protect natural rights. Whose theory is this?Adi AminAdam SmithJohn LockeJoseph Stalin60s
- Q8If a government did not protect the natural rights of man what were the people to do according to John Locke's theory?to overthrow the government and establish a new oneSet up a dictatorshipCry, Moan & WeepBe satisfied with it and live with it60s
- Q9This Enlightenment thinker's idea on government was to divide it into three (3) branches to prevent one from becoming more powerful than the other two:MadisonLockeMontesquieuHobbes60s
- Q10The Scientific Revolution focused on:Animal BehaviorRational thought and natural lawsReligion and Space flightMan's behavior60s