HW#8

1.
Enlightenment- When the ideas of the Scientific Revolution paved the way for a new movement also known as the Age of Reason.
Social Contract- An agreement by which people created government.

John Locke- Philosopher who believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves.

Natural Rights- Life, liberty, and property were the 3 rights all people are born with.

Philosophe- The social critics of the Enlightenment period in France.

Voltaire- François Marie Arouet, published more than 70 books of political essays, philosophy, history, fiction, and drama.

Montesquieu- He was an aristocrat and lawyer who concluded that Rome’s collapse was directly related to its loss of political liberties.

Separation of Powers- The executive power (King), legislative power (Parliament), and judicial power (English courts).

Jean Jacques Rousseau- A philosophe who was passionately committed to individual freedom.


Mary Wollstonecraft- She published an essay called "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" in 1792.

3.
“Power should be a check to power.”- Baron de Montesquieu
What he meant was each branch of power should all agree before a decision is made.

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”- Jean Jacques Rousseau
 What he means by that is everyone was born to be free but wherever they go they were forced to obey unjust laws whether they like to or not.

“Let women share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of men.”- Mary Wollstonecraft
She means, if you let women have the same educational rights as men they will also have successes just as the men have.