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Thomas Hobbes English thinker who believed in the "Social Contract" John Locke English thinker who believed in Natural Rights Baron de Montesquieu An early, influential thinker who believed government should be separated into different branches. Voltaire The most famous philosophe who targeted corrupt officials and idle aristocrats. Jean Jacques Rousseau The most controversial philosophe who believed that people in their "natural state" were good. Mary Wollstonecraft A well known British social critic who fought for women rights during the Enlightenment "The Wealth of Nations" A work written by Adam Smith that spoke about economic thinking. natural law a law that governs human nature social contract an agreement by which people gave up the state of nature for an organized society natural rights rights that belonged to all human beings from birth philosophe member of a group of the Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society laissez faire a policy that allowed businesses to coopertate with little or no government assistance