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| Question | Answer |
| What did people use to develop new political and social ideas during the Enlightenment period? | Reasoning > religious beliefs of the time. |
| Ideas that influenced our Founding Fathers | - Natural Law & Rights: God given - Social Contract: Constitutional Gov't created by the people. - Limited Gov't: Gov't can't do whatever it wants. - Separation of Powers: dividing gov't to prevent tyranny. |
| The thinkers behind Natural Law & Rights. | Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas |
| The thinkers behind the Social Contract | Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau. |
| The thinkers behind Limited Gov't. | John Locke |
| The thinkers behind Separation of Powers | Montesquieu |
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