What is Government?
System to govern over a nation, state, or municipality.
What is a government?
The ability to rule.
What is Power?
Name of time period where people started to think differently about how their governments should function.
What is the Enlightenment?
Life, liberty, and property.
What are liberty?
A form of government where one person is given power from their society to have absolute authority.
What is an absolute monarchy?
The right to rule.
What is authority?
French term given to the new thinkers of this era.
What were philosophes?
This group are considered the sovereigns in a democracy.
What are the people?
A form of government where the people vote on all laws that are passed within society.
What is direct democracy?
The society's belief that gives a ruler power.
What is Legitimacy?
This English philosopher states that a government should protect people's natural rights.
Who was John Locke?
This French philosophe helped create a one stop source for information.
Who was Denis Diderot?
A form of government where the wealthy rule over the people.
What is an oligarchy?
The people have _____________ in a democracy.
What is sovereignty?
This French philosophe would have been willing to die for you to state your opinion.
Who was Voltaire?
A form of government that has a plan of governing that sets limits on a king or queen and its government.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
A form of government that is influenced and run by religion.
What is a theocracy?
Religion gives theocratic leaders _________.
What is legitimacy?
This individual wrote for the equality of all in education and job opportunities.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
Who was Immanuel Kant?