Use the following passage to answer question #7
Rousseau: Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains. The government is created by a contract among the people and receives its powers from them.
Hobbes: Believed that people by nature are cruel, greedy, & selfish and only a powerful government could ensure an elderly society.
Locke: All men have certain natural rights: the right to life, liberty, and property. The purpose of government is to protect these rights. If it fails to do so, the people may set up a new government.
Montesquieu: There is no liberty if the judicial power is not separated from the legislative and executive branches.
Declaration of Independence
The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America
When is the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such a from, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Question 7 Which of these writers had a direct influence on the actual division of the Federal government’s powers?