Enlightenment Thinker Quote Match Activity

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1 Enlightenment Thinker Quote Match Activity In this activity students will be matching quotes and excerpts from various sources to important enlightenment thinkers like me! John

2 John Hobbes Baron de Montesqueiu Cesarte

3 Enlightenment Figure Name Quote # (place number of quote here) Explain how the excerpt or quote matches or represents the enlightenment thinker s ideas.

4 Enlightenment Figure Name Quote # Explain how the excerpt or quote matches or represents the enlightenment thinker s ideas. John John 7 8 John 9 Hobbes Our founding fathers copied his ideas of natural rights, life, liberty and property. We changed it to the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence. He believed that people that are accused of a crime should still have rights and that they should have a trial. He thought that people should have the freedom speech and press as a basic right. The U.S. copied his ideas in out 1st Amendment of the constitution. He thought there should be 3 branches of government. He thought that people should have the freedom of speech and press as a basic right. He believed that people that are accused of a crime should still have rights. He believed that if the government was not serving the people, the people should overthrow the government. He thought there should be 3 branches of government. He thought that there should be a law making (legislative) branch separate from the president/ executive branch. Our founding fathers copied his ideas of natural rights, life, liberty and property. We coped his idea in our 5th Amendment of the U.S. constitution. He thought that people were selfish and greedy. They needed to be controlled by an absolute power. He thought that people should have the freedom of speech and press as a basic right.

5 #1 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. #2 In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. Declaration of Independence, 1776 #3 The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may thus speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789 #5 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging [limiting] the freedom of speech or of the press. U.S. Bill of Rights, 1791 U.S. Bill of Rights #4 All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. U.S. Constitution #6 As all persons are held innocent until they have been declared guilty, if arrest is considered essential, all harshness not necessary for the securing of the person shall be severely repressed by law. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789 #7 Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. Declaration of Independence, 1776 #8 Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approves he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall proceed to reconsider it. If after such reconsideration two thirds of the House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a law. U.S. Constitution #9 No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. The Bill of Rights Amendment 5 #10 People are driven by a restless desire for power. Without laws or other social controls, people would always be in conflict. In such a state of nature, life would be nasty, brutish and short. Leviathan #11 I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.