Government
To give permission to be governed.
consent
disagreed with.
opposed
People who studied politics, justice, liberty,property.
political philosopher
Kings and queens
monarchs
A time beginning in the 1600's and lasting until the 1700's in which philosophers used reason to seek truths about human nature; also known as the Age of Reason.
Scientific revolution
Forms of government where people choose there leaders by voting.
Democrocy
Freedom
Liberty
said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were
John Locke
The idea that a king ruled by the authority of God.
Divine rights.
A time when the 1500's and 1600's where scientist tried to explain the work of the universe by using logic, reason and science.
The Enlightenment
interprets the laws; court system.
Judicial Branch
educated people
scholars
argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Kings or queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them.
absolute monarchs
opened minded and educated
enlightened
makes the laws; Senate, congress
Legislative branch
False belief
Superstition
spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at that times
Voltair
Unfair treatment of a group of people
persecution
the change from one way of doing something in a society to another way.
revolutionary
enforces the laws; police, military. President.
Executive branch
Changes
reforms
A gathering of great thinkers and artist to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment.
Salons
The rights of people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property
natural rights
publication that attempt to gather all the knowledge of humankind into a serious of books
Encyclopedia