The views of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Baron de Montesquieu varied and were very different. Hobbes wrote the Leviathan, and argued that people were naturally cruel, greedy, and greedy. He thought only a powerful government could control society, in the form of absolute monarchy. John Locke was more optimistic, he rejected absolute monarchy, wrote Treaties of Government, and people have the right to overthrow the government. Montesquieu came up with the idea of checks and balances, studied government in Europe, and admired limited government. For example, “To escape that ‘brutish’ life, said Hobbes, people entered into a social contract, an agreement by which they gave up the state of nature for an organized society. “(145) Locke reasoned,
