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Thomas Hobbes
Religion should be seperated from politics -
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John Locke
People should be born good and given natural rights. Believed that king's powers should be limited. Social contract between the people and the government. Freedom of religion. -
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Baron de Montesquie
The government should be broken down into 3 branches. One branch should have control over another. There should be seperation of powers and checks and balances. -
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Voltaire
All things should be explained logically.Freedom of thought for all people. Religion was too powerful. -
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Benjamin Franklin
Single legislature with an advisory board. Slaverywas morally wrong, should be abolished. -
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Individuals should have certain rights. Whatever majority of people want should become law. There should also be individual freedom. -
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Adam Smith
Free enterprise. Someone working benefited himself and society. Charity was a virtuous act. -
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Cesare Baccaria
People accused of crime should have rights. All torture was wrong. Education would lower the rate of crime. Punishment should fit all crime commited. -
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Thomas Jefferson
Individuals freedom and rights should be protected by government. All people should be able to get a free e education. Didn't want a government with too much power. -
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Father Hidalgo
Mexico should be free from the harsh rule of foreigners. -
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Mary Wollstonecraft
People should be judge based on individual merit and moral virtue, not on gender.Women should be given equal oppurtunity when trying to get a job. -
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Simon Bolivar
Strong central government. political powers divided among the three branches of government. All countries in Spanish America should join as one.