Founding Our Nation

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The Influence of the "Enlightenment" on our Nation's Founding.
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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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