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Founding Our Nation
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- 1What did people use to develop new political and social ideas during the Enlightenment period?Reasoning > religious beliefs of the time.
- 2Ideas 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. - 3The thinkers behind Natural Law & Rights.Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas
- 4The thinkers behind the Social ContractThomas Hobbes, John Locke, Rousseau.
- 5The thinkers behind Limited Gov't.John Locke
- 6The thinkers behind Separation of PowersMontesquieu
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- The Influence of the "Enlightenment" on our Nation's Founding.
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