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Locke

General:
-People could learn from experiences and improve themselves. -People had the natural ability to govern themselves.
-All people are born free and equal, with the three natural rights, Life, Liberty, and Property.
-Power:
Government has limited power, however all the power they do have comes from the consent of the people
-Role:
The government's job is to protect the three natural rights(life, liberty, property; if the government fails to do so, its has the right to be overthrown by the people!)

Hobbes

General:
-All humans naturally selfish and wicked,
-people need the government to keep them everyone from fighting everyone else.

Power:
-Government has the same "awesome power as a levithan"
-The best type of government is an absolute monarchy, where the power of the government is unlimited to keep the people in line,
Role:
-Keep the people in line.
-people get law and order in exchange for their rights (a social contract between the government and the people!)

Rousseau

General:
-Civilization corrupted man's natural goodness.
-all people are equal, and the titles nobility should be disbanded

Power:
-Power of the government comes from the consent of the governed
-Only good government is one freely formed/guided by the "general will" of society

Role:
-People give up some freedoms for the common good
- The social contract is an agreement between free individuals to create a society+Government.

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The enlightenment despots were important during the Enlightenment because

they had absolute power and they used their power to help in an enlightened way. The enlightenment despots were a good help to the Enlightenment society. They wanted to do it in an enlightened way because then people will be happy with you and they would not be overthrown.

Importance of The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson used his understanding of Enlightenment Ideas and has great gifts as a writer to explain the colonies' decision to choose independence.

Importance of Declaration of the Rights of a Man and of the Citizen

give the rights to liberty, property, security, and resistance.

The enlightenment ideas influence people around the world who are trying to gain and to protect individuals rights and freedom. How?

The U.S government is built on Enlightenment Ideas and is a model for other democracies. American used Enlightenment ideas to justify their break from Britain. They promoted natural rights, no taxation without representation, protection under the law, freedom of speech, right to petition government, and freedom.

Prussia, Austria and Russia are affected by Enlightened thinkers because

their rulers had to deal with the problem of serfdom. Also their rulers were Enlightened thinkers themselves. The leaders became enlightened despots.

The Enlightenment thinkers in America influenced the shape of modern democracy. How?

They used French philosophes like Rousseu's ideas of a fair democracy coming from a belief in individual rights. They said that all men are equal. Individual rights and the protection of those rights. Checks and balances of government.

The United States experimented the government affect the spread of democracy. How?

by Debating for months on a Constitution. Also the success of the American Revolution and its ideas gave hope to people elsewhere for a better government. The U.S. Government set up a model democracy.

It might have been easier for Americans than French to be the first to put the Enlightenment Ideas into action why?

because the American were not surrounded by other countries with absolute rulers. It was easy to put them into action.

The Magna Carta affected the English Bill of Rights and the declaration

by introducing trial by jury, no taxation without representation and protection of the law. It let one leader not get too powerful. It put other democratic ideas in place that could be put in other countries. Specifically outlined the laws of the King.

What was the most important legacy of Enlightenment ideas

influence people around the world who are trying to gain and to protect individuals rights and freedom. The U.S government is built on Enlightenment Ideas and is a model for other democracies. American used Enlightenment ideas to justify their break from Britain. They promoted natural rights, no taxation without representation, protection under the law, freedom of speech, right to petition government, and freedom.

How did the United States' experiment in government affect the spread of democracy's?

by Debating for months on a Constitution. Also the success of the American Revolution and its ideas gave hope to people elsewhere for a better government. The U.S. Government set up a model democracy.

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