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Hobbes believed that religion should be separated from politics
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His big ideas was natural rights, limited power to the king, social contact between the people and the govenment. Also freedom of religion.
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The gov't should be broken down
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Freedom of for all peeps religion to powerful
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- Majority people will make right decisions
- No gov't with to much power
- Individual freedom and rights are protected
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Franklin believed in a government that had a single legislative with an advisory board.
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- Individuals Rights
- Individuals Freedom
- Majority Rule
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- Self benifits Benifits society
- Society shouldn't depend on charity
- Self interests guides most effiecient use of resources
- Self benifits Benifits society
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Beccaria believed that people who were accused of a crime should have rights.
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- Urged people to fight for mexico's independece
- Questioned his own policies
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-Equal treatment of all human beings
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They thought Captian William Smith was snitching because of smuggling activites.
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The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British regulars.
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The Gaspee were chasing a merchant ship they thought to be smuggling goods. Then the Gaspee ran aground in Narragansett Bay, near Providence. The next night, a group of men boarded the Gaspee.
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In an era before modern communications, news was generally disseminated in hand-written letters that were carried aboard ships or by couriers on horseback because warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Br.
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To prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea.
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Was a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies.
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The British Government decided to reap greater benefits from the colonies.
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A convention of delegates from twelve of the thirteen North American colonies that met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early in the American Revolution.
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An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec.
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Was employed by the Boston Committee of Correspondence and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety as an express rider to carry news, messages, and copies of resolutions as far away as New York and Philadelphia.
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British General Thomas Gage sent 700 soldiers to destroy guns and ammunition the colonists had stored in the town of Concord, just outside of Boston.
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A convention of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that met beginning on May 10, 1775, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, soon after warfare in the American Revolutionary War had begun
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They declared independence and signed it
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- Emphasized the importance of science reason and respecting humanity
- Politcal power should be divided into branches
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