| A | B |
| scientist | apply reason to natural world |
| enlightenment thinks | apply reason to human world |
| human world | law and government |
| Declaration of Independence | enlightenment document written by Thomas Jefferson |
| Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan |
| John Locke | Two Treatises on Government |
| Baron de Montesquieu | The Spirit of Laws |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | The Social Contract |
| Voltaire | religious toleration; free speech |
| People are sovereign; no divine right | Locke |
| Absolutism needed to manage human behavior | Hobbes |
| Separation of Powers | Montesquieu |
| Gov't is contract between people and rulers | Rousseau |
| Separation of church and state | Voltaire |
| enlightenment effects | fueled democratic revolutions |
| natural world | earth, animals, universe |