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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 3
The Enlightenment
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Consent
Separation of powers
Natural rights
Connect consent, separation of powers, and natural rights in an argument about government. Why should a historian examine exclusions as well as the principles written in a charter?
Read the situation.
Enlightenment thinkers debated knowledge, authority, rights, and the purposes of government. They did not form one party with one identical program. Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws examined political systems and arrangements of power. Arguments about consent and natural rights influenced political movements, but influence must be traced through particular texts and decisions.
02 Organize the information.
Promise or rule?
Classify the charter excerpts by their role.
Sort the statements.
A. Announced principleB. Operating rule
Example
Category letter
1. Government should protect liberty.
2. Only property-owning men may vote.
3. Authority should rest on consent.
4. The ruler can dismiss the council at will.
5. An independent court reviews certain official actions.
Explain one placement using a detail from the example.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 3
What does the evidence show?
The Enlightenment
03 Follow the evidence.
Who can challenge the claim?
The charter claims all adults share equal political participation.
Select all records that challenge that claim.
The voting clause excludes adults without property.
A petition from women requests access to the vote denied by the rules.
The council meets in a large hall.
The charter uses the wordliberty in its title.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
A defensible revision
Which proposal most directly addresses the unchecked override without claiming to solve every inequality?
Choose the best match.
Require independent review under defined rules before the ruler cancels a council decision.
Let the ruler appoint and dismiss every reviewer without any restriction.
Expand council voting eligibility but retain the ruler’s unlimited power to cancel its decisions.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write a charter-review note explaining one Enlightenment-related principle, one institutional contradiction, and a specific repair. Include a remaining exclusion the repair does not solve.