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Voltaire Famous quote- "We must cultivate our garden"Major works-  Lettres philosophiques Impact on government/society- Ideas of religious tolerance and free speech are still used today

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Voltaire Famous quote- "We must cultivate our garden"Major works-  Lettres philosophiques Impact on government/society- Ideas of religious tolerance and free speech are still used today

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Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography

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Quotes:
The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

There is no worse screen to block out the spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

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Beccaria Impact on gov- Zoe, Zayem, Alex, Reese

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Beccaria Impact on gov- Zoe, Zayem, Alex, Reese

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Beccaria's ideas shaped the rights listed in the U.S constitution and the Bill of Rights concerning crimes and punishments.

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Beccaria Famous Quotes
- “It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.”
- "Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment"
- "For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes."

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famous quote, "To become truly great, once has to stand with people, not above them."

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Declaration of Independence of the United States

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John Locke influenced America's seperation of powers

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Beccaria Major Works- Alex, Reese, Zayem, Zoe

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Beccaria Major Works- Alex, Reese, Zayem, Zoe

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Beccaria was mainly remembered for his treatise On Crime and Punishments, this condemned torture and the death penalty. His treatise was a founding work in the field of penology and the study of criminology. He is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice.

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introduced theocracy which impacted the way certain empires lead. He changed society by adding a whole new type of government that manu empires used.

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major works:Wrote the Discourse of the Origin of Inequality
Quotes: "I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices."
Impact: Believed in Direct Democracy and that government can only exist if it has consent of the governed.

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Famous quote- "We must cultivate our garden"

Major works-  Lettres philosophiques

Impact on government/society- Ideas of religious tolerance and free speech are still used today

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Major work
Persian Letters and The Spirit of the Laws.
Quotes
To become truly great, one has to stand with people not above them
Impact
Concluded that legislative, executive, and judicial powers were separate

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Impact on government:
Montesquieu introduced the idea of separation of powers and influenced the idea of checks and balances. The separation of powers is used by the U.S. government and checks and balances are used by the three branches of government in the U.S.

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Major work:
Thomas jefferson's major work was  the Declaration of Independence for the United States
Impact on society:
Gave birth to the Country called the United States of America.-The best
Quote :
"our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."

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Major Works:
-inalienable rights
-"Two Treatises of Government"
Famous Quotes:
-"What worries you, masters you"
-"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts"
-"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property"
Impact on Gov/Society:
-his book justified the overthrow of James II
-humans had the rights to life, liberty, property

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Reese, Zoe, Zayem, Alex
- “It is better to prevent crimes than to punish them.”
- "Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment"
- "For a punishment to be just it should consist of only such gradations of intensity as suffice to deter men from committing crimes."
- "Laws against the possession of weapons only disarm those who have no intention of committing a crime."

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Thomas Hobbes
Major Works: Leviathan. While still in Paris, Hobbes began work on what would become his magnum opus and one of the most influential books ever written: Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civil (usually referred to as simply Leviathan).
Famous Quote: "It is not wisdom but authority that makes the law"
Influence On Government: Due to Hobbes' ideas, they saw that people cannot survive without a strong central government that would protect them. His social contract theory established that a government should serve and protect all the people in the society. acting only with the "consent of the governed", this influenced the U.S constitution.