vocab 10

3. The executive branch is the branch of government responsible for carrying out and enforcing laws.
6. a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.
10. an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
13. a written work dealing formally and systematically with a subject.
15. the practice of tolerating something, in particular differences of opinion or behavior.
16. A French philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, and essayist.
17. a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
18. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (1632-1704)
20. a ruler or other person who holds absolute power, typically one who exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.

1. A French painter, who created bold dreamlike pictures, often of exotic landscapes in a naive style.
2. Thomas Hobbes was an English philosopher, considered to be one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
4. the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.
5. having or representing the sun as the center, as in the accepted astronomical model of the solar system.
7. a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.
8. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
9. A revolution in Britain in 1688 in which the parliament deposed King James II, a Roman Catholic who had asserted royal rights over the rights of Parliament.
11. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally referred to by its shortened title The Wealth of Nations, is the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith.
12. an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
14. A drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries.
19. one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment.