world history vocab study

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Natural Rights; right to overthrow gov if rights are not protected

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John Locke

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Expanded social contract, will of the people. "Man is born free, everywhere he is in chains"

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Jean-Jacques Rosseau

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Knowledge from observation and experiments, not religion.

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Empiricism

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Separation of powers, checks and balances, branches of government

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Baron De Montesquieu

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Life, Liberty, & pursuit of property

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Natural rights

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The age of reason

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The Enlightenment

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Laissez-faire economics, free market, capitalism

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Adam Smith

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Advocated for US freedom from Britain, anti-church. Wrote Common Sense.

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Thomas Paine

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Moral/political obligations depend on a contract to form society.

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Thomas Hobbes

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"I think, therefore I am"

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Rene Descartes