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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