5 ENLIGHTENMENT THINKERS

VOLTAIRE

• To say what you think
• Essay on the Manners and the Spirit of the Nations (1756)
• I placed him as number 1 because his philosophies are importent and still used in society today

MONTESQUIEU

• Three Branches of Goverment ( Judicial, Executive, Leguslative )
• The Spirit of Laws
• He is importent beacuse he created the government we still use today

ROUSSEAU

• Wanted less rules and more freedom
• The social contract
• I chose Rousseau for number 3 because he created a contract formpeople, explaining how he wanted less rules and more freedom because people cab handle themselves

ADAM SMITH

• The Wealth of Nations: a free matket should be allowed to regulate buissnesss avtuvity
• The Wealth of Nations
• I chose him because he declares that business should be able to live on thier own without being rule by others

DIEROT

• 28 volumes of a Encyclopedia
• 28 volume Encyclopedia
• Diderot is number 5 because the encyclopedia provides lots of information still used today