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  1. 2. who wrote the US constitution
  2. 5. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
  3. 8. a genevan philosopher who created the social contract
  4. 9. a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights
  5. 10. counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
  6. 11. what is the original US constitution called
  7. 12. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
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  1. 1. What are mankinds natural rights?
  2. 3. an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.
  3. 4. a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. He is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers
  4. 6. who created the concept of "natural rights"?
  5. 7. what day was the US constitution written?