People are wicked and need strong government
Religion should not be imposed upon an entire state.
"All people have natural rights including life, liberty, and property"
Locke
"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them"
Voltaire
Rousseau
“The law of intolerance is . . . absurd and barbaric. It is the law of the jungle and, indeed, it is even worse because wild animals kill others only to eat, while we human beings are exterminating each other for the sake of a few paragraphs.”
Wollstonecraft
Hobbes
English Advocate for Women's Rights
People are the source of the government's power
People have the right to overthrow an unjust government.
"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
"Without government our lives would be nasty, brutish, and short"
Freedom of Speech
Montesquieu
The government should also be divided into three independent branches.
"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience"