| A | B |
|---|
| Enlightenment | period when US Constitution was written |
| Renaissance | Period when Europe began to emerge from Dark Ages |
| Enlightened thinkers believed in | nautral laws & reason |
| Locke's "natural rights" | life, liberty, and property |
| kings, monarchs | do NOT fit with Enlightened thought |
| Thomas Hobbes quote | Before gov't. life was solitary, poor, nasty ... |
| Thomas Hobbes major work | Leviathan |
| Charles Montesquieu quote | we must divide pwr into exec., leg. & jud. branches |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau quote | man is free, yet everywhere he is in chairs |
| Shays Rebellion | demonstrated weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation |
