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- 2. Pledge by the National Assembly to create a new constitution after being locked out of the Estates General.
- 5. Enlightenment thinker who believed in separation of powers in government.
- 9. Economist who supported free markets and natural laws of economics.
- 14. Assembly of representatives from all three estates; called to address taxes but was unfair to the Third Estate.
- 15. Period of new ideas in the 1600s-1700s that stressed reason, equality, and questioning authority.
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- 1. Rights Enlightenment belief that all people are born with rights such as life, liberty, and property.
- 3. First form of representative government formed by the Third Estate to make laws for the French people.
- 4. Enlightenment writer who defended freedom of speech and religion.
- 6. Nobility; wealthy landowners with privileges; paid no taxes.
- 7. Revolutionary document influenced by Enlightenment ideas; declared equality and protected rights.
- 8. Everyone else (peasants, workers, middle class); 97% of population; paid nearly all the taxes.
- 10. Contract Rousseau's idea that governments should be based on an agreement between rulers and the people.
- 11. Clergy in France; less than 1% of the population; paid no taxes.
- 12. Enlightenment thinker who promoted natural rights and government by consent of the governed.
- 13. Enlightenment thinker who argued government must follow the general will of the people.