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The Enlightenment
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| natural law | a law that gives everyone natural rights |
| social contract | an agreement between rulers and a people in which the people agree to be ruled in exchange for the rulers protecting their rights. |
| government | a group of people that has the power to make the rules. |
| separation of powers | government power is divided among the branches of government: executive, legislative, and judicial |
| absolutism | a system in which a king or other leader has total power. |
| constitution | a special type of law document that tells how its government is supposed to work |
| representative government | a government in which people elect representatives to make laws and run the government |
| popular sovereignty | the idea that government gets it power from the people |
| The Enlightenment | A period of time in the 18th century in which people changed how they thought about the job of government. |
| natural rights (according to John Locke) | the right to life, the right to liberty, and the right to own property |
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