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Which statements accurately describe Enlightenment ideas? Choose all answers that are correct. A. The French philosopher Voltaire believed people should be free to use reason and make up their own minds about religion, politics, and philosophy. B. John Locke wrote that the job of governments was to respect natural law and protect natural rights. C. Oliver Cromwell closed Parliament by force and ruled England as a military dictator.



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The Enlightenment was a period where philosophical thinking bloomed based upon humanist ideas and natural laws. Voltaire and John Locke were famous philosophers form this period and therefore, A and B would be important ideas representative of the Enlightenment Period.

The Enlightenment has emerged as a reaction to absolutist systems and as a need for the expansion of rationalist ideas, democracy, science. The rule of the majority, as a democratic right, free choice of political option, religion, and not imposed, even the need to overthrow the authoritative powers, as a denial of dogma and an irrational proposition that the ruler is chosen by God. Irrational ideas are replaced by humanism, and naturism, the human problems of ordinary people are in focus, not some universal imposed demagogy. This movement is the basis for democratic systems and national revolutions that have led to national emancipation.

The correct answer are: A. and B.