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educated people
What is a Scholar?
changes
What are Reforms?
people who studied politics, justice, liberty, property
Who are political philosophers?
kings and queens
What are Monarchs?
disagreed with
What does Oppose mean?
to give permission to be governed
What is consent?
Life,Liberty,and ownership of land
What are your natural rights?
false beliefs
What is a Superstition?
form of government where people choose leaders by voting
What is a Democracy?
freedom
What is Liberty?
a gathering of great thinkers and artists to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment.
What are salons?
unfair treatment of a group of people
What is persecution?
the idea that a king ruled by the authority of God.
What was the Divine Rights?
rights people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property
What are Natural Rights?
said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were learned from experiences
Who was John Locke?
Legislative Branch
What was another Branch of government?
Judicial Branch
What was one of the three branches?
kings or queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them
What are Absolute Monarchs?
argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at times
Who was Voltaire?
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
What was the Enlightenment?
a time in the 1500’s and 1600’s where scientists tried to explain the workings of the universe by using logic, reason and science
What was the Scientific Revolution?
the change from one way of doing something in a society to another way.
What does Revolutionary mean?
makes the laws; Senate, Congress
What was the Legislative Branch?
enforces the laws; police, military. President
What was the Executive Branch of government?