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| John Locke | English, wrote about how all people are born with "Natural Rights" |
| John Locke | Said all people should be able to live, be free, and own their own property. |
| John Locke | Said the purpose of government should be to protect citizens' rights. |
| John Locke | Said that when government doesn't protect the people's rights, the people should overthrow it. |
| John Locke | English philosopher that was the biggest influence on the Declaration of Independence. |
| Voltaire | French philosopher and satirist. |
| Voltaire | He fought for tolerance of reason, religion and speech. |
| Voltaire | He was the biggest influence on the Constitution's 1st Amendment freedoms. |
| Baron de Montesquieu | French philosopher who wrote about the need to separate government powers. |
| Baron de Montesquieu | He wrote that one part of the government should be able to stpp the other. |
| Baron de Montesquieu | He said government should have checks and balances of power. |
| Baron de Montesquieu | He was the biggest influence on how the US structured its government. |
| Jean-Jaques Rousseau | Swiss-born philosopher who wrote that individual liberty was important, but that people should give up some freedoms for the common good of everyone. |
| Jean-Jaques Rousseau | Wrote that civilization had forced good people to obey bad laws. |
| Cesare Baccaria | Italian writer who promoted criminal justice reforms. |
| Cesare Baccaria | He wrote that criminal punishments should be for deterrence, not vengeance. |
| Cesare Baccaria | He wrote against torture and capital punishment. |
| Cesare Baccaria | He said criminal trials should be fair. |
| Adam Smith | Scottish economist who first explained capitalism. |
| Adam Smith | Said economies work best when left alone. |
| Adam Smith | He was a major influence on the US' economic system. |
| Laissez Faire | French term meaning "hands off" |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | English writer who believed that Enlightenment ideas about equality should apply to women. |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | Said women aren't inferior to men, they just aren't allowed to be educated. |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | major influence on the US women's movement a century later. |
| Denis Diderot | He was the first editor of the Encyclopedia. |
| Denis Diderot | French philosopher, art critic and writer. |
