Enlightenment and Historic Documents
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Directions-Use your reading notes on the Enlightenment Philosophers to identify which
philosopher influenced the following documents.
1. 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. —
Declaration of Independence, 1776
What Philosopher? ____________________
2. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial
jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed. —U. S. Bill of Rights
What Philosopher? ____________________
3. The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every
citizen may thus speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this
freedom as shall be defined by law. —Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789
What Philosopher? ____________________
4. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall
consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the
United States of America. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and
in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. —U.S. Constitution
What Philosopher? ____________________
5. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof. —U.S. Bill of Rights, 1791
What Philosopher? ____________________
6. Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
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.
—Declaration of Independence, 1776
What Philosopher? ____________________
7. Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a
Law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall
return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall…
—U.S. Constitution
What Philosopher? ____________________
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