Enlightenment

4. an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each
8. the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law
9. a written document granting land and authority to set up colonial governments
10. a body of unwritten laws based on legal precedents established by the courts

1. a political system based upon the undivided sovereignty or rule of a single person
2. a body of persons having the power to legislate
3. a philosophical movement of the 18th century marked by a rejection of traditional, social, religious, and political ideas and an emphasis on rationalism
5. rights that are not dependent on the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and are therefore universal and inalienable
6. a pact or treaty
7. something that precedes, or comes before
9. a group of people in one place who are ruled by a parent country elsewhere