Absolutism and Enlightenment

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  1. 2. This system functions by giving each government branch the ability to limit the other branches.
  2. 5. A government where power is held by a single ruler, such as a king or queen.
  3. 6. The belief, held by Louis XIV, that a monarch is answerable only to God.
  4. 9. insisting priests support his policies is an example of absolute monarchs controlling _______ authorities.
  5. 11. This philosopher is famous for developing the principle of separation of powers.
  6. 13. using armies to invade neighboring lands is a way to _______ borders as an absolute monarch.
  7. 16. A contradiction of the Enlightenment was that many thinkers promoted liberty but tolerated or justified this.
  8. 17. A government where the monarch's power is limited by law, established in England after the Glorious Revolution.
  9. 19. This philosopher advocated for natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
  10. 20. This philosopher believed a powerful sovereign is necessary to maintain order.
  11. 22. A government where citizens vote.
  12. 23. The 1688 overthrow of King James II in England.
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  1. 1. The key American document that declared the colonies' intent to form a government on Enlightenment principles.
  2. 3. These are intended to protect the personal freedoms and liberties of citizens.
  3. 4. The 17th and 18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason and individual rights.
  4. 7. The palace Louis XIV built as a symbol of his power and to control the nobility.
  5. 8. Hobbes's term for life without government: "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short".
  6. 9. This philosopher believed government power must come directly from the "general will" of the people.
  7. 10. This French king, an absolute monarch, famously declared, "L’état, c’est moi" ("I am the state").
  8. 12. Enlightenment ideas inspired the American colonies to pursue this from Great Britain.
  9. 14. An absolutist king stripping nobles of their land limits their ______.
  10. 15. The main purpose of the separation of powers is to prevent the ______ of power.
  11. 18. Locke's theory that a government's power must be derived from the _______ of the governed.
  12. 21. This 1689 English document legally limited royal authority and affirmed Parliament's supremacy.