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What is enlightenment?
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An intellectual movement where enlightenment thinkers applied reason and the scientific method to laws that shaped human actions.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Invented a social contract in which people created a government; believed in absolute monarchy.
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Voltaire
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A great thinker/writer; believed in fighting for tolerance, reason, and freedom
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Montesquieu
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A French writer
- believed Britain was best governed - believed democracy was best form of govt. |
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Beccaria
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-Right to a speedy trial
- Capital punishment should be abolished |
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Philosophes
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The social critics of this period in France.
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John Locke
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Believed that rights are life, liberty, and property.
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Social Contract
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An agreement between people and their government.
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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Believed that women needed education just as much as men.
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