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Enlightenment ideas challenge the old order — Homework
Answer in complete sentences, citing specific thinkers and dates from this week.
- 1.In what year did Locke publish the Two Treatises of Government, and what three natural rights did he name?
- 2.Name the French thinker who proposed dividing government into three branches.
- 3.Explain what Locke meant by the "social contract" and why it made revolution justifiable.
- 4.Give one specific phrase from the Declaration of Independence and explain how it echoes Locke.
- 5.Write a paragraph explaining why Enlightenment ideas were dangerous to kings who ruled by divine right.
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