Who believed that people should be

knowledgeable and keep the government

accountable?

A. John Locke B. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

C. Charles Montesquieu D. Thomas Hobbes

B. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Explanation:

The Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that a perfect government was one ruled under a direct democracy in which all adults, white male citizens should be knowledgeable, could participate and decide the content of the laws and all the measures that affected them and keep the government accountable.

The answer is B. Jean - Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau was passionately committed to individual freedom. A strange, brilliant, and controversial figure, Rousseau strongly disagreed with other enlightenment thinkers on many matters. Most philosophers believed that reason, science, and art would improve life for all people. Rousseau, however, argued that civilization corrupted people's natural goodness. "Man is born free, and every - where he is in chains," he wrote. Rousseau believed that the only good government was one that was freely formed by the people and guided by the "general will" of society-a direct democracy. Under such a government, people agree to give up some of their freedom in favor of the common good. In 1762, he explained his political philosophy in a book called The Social Contract. Rousseau's view of the social contract differed greatly from that of Hobbes. For Hobbes, the social contract was an agreement between a society and its government. For Rousseau, it was an agreement among free individuals to create a society and a government. Like Locke, Rousseau argued that legitimate government came from the consent of the governed. However, Rousseau believed in a much broader democracy than Locke had promoted. He argued that all people were equal and that titles of nobility should be abolished. Rousseau's ideas inspired many of the leaders of the French Revolution who overthrew the monarchy in 1789.