Montesquieu, Voltaire, And Jean Jacques Rousseau

Society has come a long way since the sixteenth century. Between the Scientific Revolution that starting in Europe around 1543, to the enlightenment that started around the sixteen or seventeen hundreds. Many ideas were developed and many views were shared between philosophers and intellectuals. Three of these Intellectuals were Charles Montesquieu, Voltaire, and lastly Jean Jacques Rousseau. Montesquieu is highly known for the idea and creation of the three separate government branches, but he also published The Spirit of the Laws in 1748, which was considered a treatise that presented a debate on government. The second philosopher was Voltaire, who wrote Patrie, in The Philosophical Dictionary, in the year of 1752 which offered criticism of Social and Religion entities (penguin.co.uk). The third intellectual was Jean Jacques Rousseau who wrote and published The Social Contract in 1763, which was more of a Theory that Rousseau wrote regarding sovereignty and law (bl.uk). Starting with Montesquieu’s, The Spirit of the Laws,

Each of them had the belief that the people should highly be involved in government. Montesquieu stared with the three different powers, in which we do use today, to monitor the power and make sure no one person gains complete control over others. After Montesquieu, was Voltaire, in which he stated that the people should choose how the government should run, however, there was a complication of class, and different class would want society, and government, to be run differently, in which others would not be satisfied. Lastly, Rousseau believed that the people should claim their rights and that their natural born rights and will should be the way society should be. This states a simple idea, that according to these men, that the best and ideal society is the society controlled by the people without a higher