The Enlightenment thinker who advocated the doctrine of the separation of powers among the legislature, executive and judiciary as a safeguard against despotism was:
The Enlightenment thinker whose ideas on the social contract and popular sovereignty proposed that political authority should rest on an agreement between people and their government significantly influenced revolutionary thought. This philosopher was:
Which French king, whose extravagant spending and inability to resolve the financial crisis contributed significantly to the outbreak of revolution, was on the throne of France in 1789?
Rising bread prices and subsistence crises in the years before 1789, caused partly by poor harvests and population growth outpacing food production, contributed significantly to popular discontent among:
A.
Foreign merchants
B.
Only the nobility
C.
Only the clergy
D.
The common people, particularly peasants and urban poor of the Third Estate
D. The common people, particularly peasants and urban poor of the Third Estate
11.
The Estates General, an assembly of representatives of the three Estates summoned by King Louis XVI to approve new taxes, was convened at Versailles in:
A key demand of the members representing the Third Estate at the Estates General, related to the traditional method of voting (by Estate rather than by individual head), was for:
A.
Voting by Estate, giving the privileged orders permanent dominance
B.
Voting rights only for the clergy
C.
The complete abolition of the Estates General
D.
Voting by individual member of the assembly as a whole, giving the numerous Third Estate greater influence
