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  1. 2. part of the US constitution which is a list of the rights of US citizens, for example freedom of speech and freedom of religion
  2. 8. French philosopher, art critic, and writer prominent during the Enlightenment; wrote about consumer desire
  3. 10. an agreement made in 1781 by the 13 original colonies of the US, which established a government for the US, and which was used as the basic law of the country until the Constitution of the United States was written and agreed in 1789
  4. 14. a doctrine of political theory that states government is created by and subject to the will of the people
  5. 15. the division of governmental power among three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial, so that no single branch can become a threat to liberty
  6. 16. Faire free trade; a belief in the absence of government regulation in business
  7. 18. an absolute ruler who used his or her power for the good of the people
  8. 21. the time when scholars believed in the use of reason and in the scientific method
  9. 23. an agreement between citizens and government in which citizens give up certain rights in exchange for peace and security
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  1. 1. an English philosopher who developed the idea of empiricism in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In his Two Treatises on Civil Government he wrote that a king or government received the right to rule from the people and not from God, and that the people should be able to change their government if they were not satisfied with it
  2. 3. a group of thinkers in the early 1700s who believed in reason, liberty, natural law, progress, and human happiness
  3. 4. the document written in 1776, in which the thirteen British colonies in America officially stated that they were an independent nation and would no longer agree to be ruled by Britain
  4. 5. a French writer and philosopher who was one of the leaders of the Enlightenment, and whose ideas influenced the French
  5. 6. a French political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment and is famous for his theory of separation of powers
  6. 7. a Scottish economist who strongly believed in free enterprise; wrote The Wealth of Nations, which has had an important influence on modern economic and political ideas
  7. 9. a meeting of prominent writers, poets, artists, musicians, and political leaders who discussed their ideas
  8. 11. a British physicist and mathematician who discovered gravity; one of the most important scientists who ever lived
  9. 12. the belief that God created the universe and then left it alone
  10. 13. of the leading female figures of the French Enlightenment
  11. 17. an overthrow and replacement of an established government by the people governed; a sudden, complete or marked change
  12. 19. a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
  13. 20. He wrote essays on many subjects, but his best-known work is the story Candide.
  14. 22. a collection of books that would bring together the Enlightened thinking of the time