LEQ Feb 7 Enlightenment thinkers

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Baron de Montesquieu

Spirit of the Law, 3 branches of government, checks and balances, legislative (makes the law) & judicial (interprets the law) & executive (oversees the law)

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Social contract

  • popular sovereignty

  • people should determine the form of government

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John Locke

An Essay on Human Understanding (1690)

  • Tabula rasa (blank slate) - all children are born blank slates, a citizen can be formed through education

→ foundational argument for public schools

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Denis Diderot

Encyclopedia - one book that contained all of human knowledge