-all of a sudden, people took all they were learning about science and decided to apply it to society

-absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, or something else, people experiment to discover which one works best

-people collect data, they study it, analyze it, and record it, then come to a conclusion

-first man to do this was John Hobbes

-he is an English subject, defended concept of absolute monarch

-Hobbes wrote something dramatic that ticked a lot of people off, we give up our rights to the government in order to have a society with law and order

-another guy says that everything Hobbes said is wrong

-he is John Locke, says they should ditch monarchys completely

- "all people are born with natural rights", natural rights are the right to life, liberty, and ownership of property

-a government should protect the natural rights of its people

-Locke then says that the people have the right to rebel, if the government does not

-American Revelution was based on this thought

3 guys head of the French Philosophes, Diderot, Voltaire (second estate), Montesquieu

Voltaire writes satires, were hugely popular, wrote Candide (ma

1. national assembly, new government

Montesquieu- says if we get rid of the king, we can have a government like this, 3 branches, checks and balances, separation of power, legislative, executive, judicial, legislative, make laws, executive carry out laws, judicial will interpret laws

Third estate decides to come, change voting system, and impose their ideas

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