Enlightenment Thinkers

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Thomas Hobbes

believed in an absolute monarchy and that people would be destructive if not governed, but did not want “divine rights of kings”

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John Locke

believed in unalienable rights of life, liberty, and property

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Jean Jacques Rosseau

“popular sovereignty”, more democratic, power comes from the people

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 Montesquieu

division of 3 powers (executive, legislative, judicial)

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Voltaire

freedom of speech (and others freedoms)

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Adam Smith

mercantilism → capitalism, government success NOT built from god or the government