Enlightenment

2. an agreement between people and their government, in which people give up some things in return for the benefit of having government
4. a form of government
6. a period from the late 1600s to the late 1700s in Europe in which people developed new ideas about human existence
7. basic rights that (according to Locke) all human beings are born with such as life, liberty, and the ownership of property
8. the idea that a country's leader should be chosen by the people in a general election
9. an agreement made by the people to establish a government and abide by its laws, but if the government fails, the people have the right to revolt
10. informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas during the Enlightenment

1. a condition in which no governments or laws existed at all; complete freedom, but no protection
3. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.
5. dividing power among three branches of government so that each can check (limit) the power of the others