Instructions
1. Fold your paper the long way leaving a finger width edge along the long side.
With a marker, draw a line where the two edges meet so that part of the line is on the bottom side and part of the line is
on the top. Then, write along the edge Enlightenment Philosophers.
2. Fold the paper so that one third is exposed and two thirds are covered.
Fold the 2/3rds section in half.
2/3
3
Fold the 1/3 section backwards to form a fold line.
When you open the paper, you should have 5 equal sections.
3. With a marker, highlight the fold line on the top section and on the bottom section. Be sure to stop your
high light line on the bottom at the title line.
4. On the front, cut out the names of each philosopher and their picture. Neatly attach these to the front of each
section in the following order: Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacque
Rousseau
5. Cut out the information for each of these philosophers and the pictures that illustrate each philosopher. You
should organize the information and the pictures so that they compliment each other.
Do not glue anything until you have checked with the teacher for
correctness.
Hobbes
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Locke
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Baron de
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Jean-Jacque
Rousseau
-Wrote Two Treatises
of Government
-man is violent and
needs to be
controlled
-Wrote The Spirit of
Laws
-“I disapprove of what you
-Wrote The Social
Contract
say, but I defend to the
Death your right to say it.”
-government by the
consent of the
governed
-wrote Leviathan
-influenced the U.S.
Bill of Rights
-1st Amendment
-freedom of speech
-freedom of religion
-“Man is born free, but
everywhere he is in
chains.”
-influenced the U.S.
Constitution
-Natural rights
-life, liberty, &
property
-Believed in an
absolute monarchy
-Social Contract
Theory
-unwritten agreement
between people &
government
-if gov’t does not
protect the rights
of people, then
people have the
right to overthrow
the government
-influenced Thomas
Jefferson and the
Declaration of
Independence
-3 branches of gov’t
in order to prevent
abuse of power
-“without a powerful
government, people
would revert to a
state of nature and
life would be solitary,
poor, nasty, brutish,
and short.”
-influenced the
Declaration of
Independence and
the U.S.
Constitution
-system of checks and
balances