THE ENLIGHTEMENT

1. Measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others.
8. He wrote Two Treatises of Government and believed that all people have natural rights
9. One of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment.
10. He wrote The Leviathan and supported absolute monarchy.
11. The executive branch of government in a parliamentary system.
14. He wrote Candide and believed everyone is entitled to free speech, religion and thought.

2. A system of governing in which the ruler’s power is limited by law.
3. According to Locke, rights that all humans are born with: life, liberty, and the right to own property.
4. The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.
5. One of the 18th century European monarchs who were inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects.
6. Wrote The Spirit of Laws and believed in the separation of powers.
7. Made famous by Rousseau; the political philosophy referring to the will of the people as a whole.
12. The use of reason to analyze human nature.
13. He wrote The Social Contract and believed that society is an agreement in which all people agree to work for the common good.