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chapter 11 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| powers are defined and limited by law | constitutional government |
| someone who used enlightened ideas to bring about political and social change | enlightened despot |
| governed by human nature according to Locke and Hobbe | natural laws |
| example is life, liberty, and property (born with this) | natural rights |
| believed that natural laws could be used to define economic systems | physiocrat |
| german composer of religious music for choirs and organs | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| editor of controversial encyclopedia | Denis Diderot |
| author of pamphlet encouraging americans to declare independence from britain | Thomas Paine |
| philosopher who believed that people were basically good | Jean-Jacques Roussea |
| whig leader often called britain's first prime minister | Robert Walpole |
| a grand and complex artistic style | baroque |
| a government in which the ruling power belongs to few people | oligarchy |
| a policy that allows businesses to operate without government interference | laissez faire |
| a social gathering in which artists and thinkers exchange ideas | salon |
| an agreement by which people give up their natural state for an organized society | social contract |
| fought for people's rights to have freedom as they pleased | Voltaire |
| did not want any government involvement in trade or commerce | Adam Smith |
| wanted separation of powers in government in order to keep liberty | Baron de Montesquieu |