Enlightenment

2. an agreement between people and their government, in which people give up some things in return for the benefit of having government
3. belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god.
7. a form of government, usually hereditary monarchy, in which the ruler has no legal limits on his or her power.
8. the idea that a country's leader should be chosen by the people in a general election
9. informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas during the Enlightenment
10. a period from the late 1600s to the late 1700s in Europe in which people developed new ideas about human existence including basic rights and the level of control they should have over their government

1. basic rights that (according to Locke) all human beings are born with such as life, liberty, and the ownership of property
4. an agreement made by the people to establish a government and abide by its laws, but if the government fails, the people have the right to revolt
5. dividing power among three branches of government so that each can check (limit) the power of the others
6. a condition in which no governments or laws existed at all; complete freedom, but no protection