Social Studies OGT Vocabulary
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show | a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Locke, and Newton, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
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show | Rights that people supposedly have under natural law.
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show | an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theorists who used this concept include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau | show 🗑
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Consent of the Governed | show 🗑
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show | a state/country in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president instead of a monarch.
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Montesquieu | show 🗑
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Direct Democracy | show 🗑
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Representative Democracy | show 🗑
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show | a general system of government in which the whole population or all the eligible members of a state/country have a voice in government, typically through elected representatives.
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show | an Enlightenment concept that means "a clean slate", which is an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals
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show | a concept in moral and political philosophy that was often used by Enlightenment thinkers, that means the hypothetical conditions of what the lives of people might have been like before societies and governments came into existence.
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show | the power or scope to act as one pleases. It is basically another way to say “freedom”
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show | an act of giving the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
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show | counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, in order to help make sure that no one individual or group becomes too powerful
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