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Title: Major Ideas of the Enlightenment


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Major Ideas of the Enlightenment
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John Locke
  • Idea
  • Natural rights- life, liberty, property
  • Impact
  • Fundamental to U.S. Declaration of Independence

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Wollstonecraft
  • Idea
  • Womens equality
  • Impact
  • Womens rights groups form in Europe and North
    America

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Beccaria
  • Idea
  • Abolishment of torture
  • Impact
  • Guaranteed in U.S. Bill of Rights torture
    outlawed or reduced in nations of Europe and the
    Americas.

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Montesquieu
  • Idea
  • Separation of powers
  • Impact
  • France, U.S., Latin American nations use
    separation of powers in new constitution

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Voltaire
  • Idea
  • Freedom of thought and expression
  • Religious Freedom
  • Impact
  • Guaranteed in U.S. Bill of Rights and French
    Declaration of the rights of man and citizen
    European monarchs reduce or eliminate censorship
    and reduce persecution.

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