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Age of Enlightenment: Revolutionizing Government and Rights

Discover how Enlightenment philosophers challenged traditional ideas, advocated for human reason, and influenced the American and French Revolutions in the 1700s.

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Age of Enlightenment: Revolutionizing Government and Rights

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  1. What was the Age of Enlightenment? Notes #47

  2. The Age ofEnlightenment was a period, during the 1700s, when people rejected traditional ideas and supported a belief in human reason.

  3. Philosophers of the Enlightenment were interested in changing people’s relationship with their government. VS.

  4. They believed that government decisions should be based on laws of nature and reason. U.S. Constitution

  5. Famous philosophers of the Enlightenment include: John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Baron de Montesquieu, and Voltaire. Locke Montesquieu Voltaire

  6. Locke believed that governments should protect people’s natural rights. Declaration of Independence

  7. Rousseau believed that the power of the government should be derived from those who are governed.

  8. Montesquieu believed in a separation of governmental powers.

  9. Voltaire believed in freedom of speech.

  10. Due to their support of natural rights, Enlightenment philosophers helped encourage and spark the American and French Revolutions of the 1700s.

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