The Enlightenment - Philosophes

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Natural laws

________- were unchanging principles, discovered via reason that govern all human conduct.

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General

________ will is "the best conscience of the people.

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divine right

Power should be held by people (democracy) and not via "________.

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Physiocrats

________ are french economic thinkers.

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free enterprise system

A(n) ________ is when businesses can compete for customers and profit without the government.

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State of nature

________- life without laws of other control, it will end in disaster.

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Natural rights

________ are "rights that belonged to all humans from birth "Life, liberty, and property.

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Hobbes

Wrote Leviathan 1651

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Lockes ideal government

has to protect people's natural rights and can be overthrown if it doesnt

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Montesquieus Ideas

Dividing Power

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Voltaires Ideas

Freedom of Thought

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