Enlightenment

4. Contract An implicit agreement among the citizens to give up power to the government for protection.
6. A political system in which a ruler holds total power.
7. Despot A form of government in the 18th century in which absolute monarchs pursued legal, social, and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment.
9. Locke An English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers and contributors to liberal theory.
12. The suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security.
13. A belief in reason and logic as the primary source of knowledge.
14. The principle of separation of the state from religious institutions.
15. of Nature According to Hobbes and Locke this is the state humans would live in without government. There would be constant conflict.

1. Rights Rights that people supposedly have under natural law, including the rights to life, liberty, and property.
2. French thinkers who desired reform in society during the Enlightenment.
3. A French political analyst who is best known for his thoughts on the separation of powers.
5. A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
8. Revolution A period of great advances in the sciences, roughly 1500-1700, preceding the Enlightenment.
10. Monarchy A form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a written constitution.
11. A Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer whose political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment.