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- 2. who wrote the US constitution
- 5. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
- 8. a genevan philosopher who created the social contract
- 9. a British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights
- 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.
- 11. what is the original US constitution called
- 12. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
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- 1. What are mankinds natural rights?
- 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.
- 4. a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. He is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers
- 6. who created the concept of "natural rights"?
- 7. what day was the US constitution written?