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- 4. the concept that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will and all individuals should be forced to abide by its since it represents what is best for the entire community
- 5. a system in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their full royal powers
- 8. French for "philosopher" applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment
- 9. He thought that there should be a law making branch separate from the president/executive branch
- 10. the concept that the state should not impose government regulations but should leave the economy alone
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- 1. a form of government in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches limit and control each other through a system of checks and balances
- 2. He believed that people that are accused of a crime should still have rights and that they should have a trail
- 3. He thought that people should have the freedom of speech and press as a basic right. The U.S. copied his ideas in our 1st Amendment of the Constitution
- 6. Our founding fathers copied his ideas of natural rights, life, liberty, and property. We changed it to the pursuit of happiness in our Declaration of Independence
- 7. an 18th century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law
- 11. the elegant urban drawing rooms where, in the 18th century, writes, artists, aristocrats, government officials, and wealth middle-class people gathered to discuss the ideas of the phillosophes