| A | B |
| US Constitution written during | Enlightenment |
| King before the Enlightenment | Louis XIV |
| Key Enlightened ideas | Logic and Reason |
| Before gov't life was brutish & short | Hobbes |
| born free, yet everywhere in chains | Rousseau |
| wrote "Wealth of Nations" | Adam Smith |
| believed in separation of govt. | Montesquieu |
| Shays' Rebellion | showed weakness of AOC |
| Whiskey Rebellion | showed success of Constitution |
| Rhode Island | no role in Constitutional Convention |