Locke: John Locke, blank mind or blank slate, governments protect natural rights & should be limited, people can overthrow a government if it violates natural rights, Montesquieu: Baron de Montesquieu, Spirit of the laws, governments need checks and balances, Voltaire: Voltaire, governments should be nonreligious, separation of church and state, Rousseau: Rousseau, social contract- government is responsible for taking care of people, government= contract between people and leaders, Wollstonecraft: Mary Wollstonecraft, because women have reason they should have the same rights as men, Wilberforce: William Wilberforce, Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807 no more slavery in England and its colonies, Hobbes: Thomas Hobbes, all men are brutish, savage and evil, man must sacrifice freedom for having a government, leaders need to be strong and controlling ,

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