Age of Enlightenment

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What does the term "consent of the governed" refer to?

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The idea that governments get their authority from the will of the people

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Which individual states the people surrender their rights for protection but if government does not protect the people, the people may break the contract?

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John Locke

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This was a period of time when European thinkers started to re-think the relationship between the government and the people, including peoples’ basic rights and the level of control they should have over their government and their futures.

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The Enlightenment

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Many Enlightenment thinkers believed in THIS- the idea that a country’s leader should be chosen by the citizens in a general election (although this may not mean all citizens).

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Republicanism

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What did John Locke believe people are born with?

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According to Locke, what are the natural rights that human beings share?

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Life, liberty, and property

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Who wrote the phrase: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness..." in the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson

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In his book Leviathan, HE states that people should agree to give up some rights and power in exchange for protection from the government (monarchy). Once people agreed to this, they lost the right to overthrow, replace, or even question the government.

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Thomas Hobbes

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A state of nature is defined as______________________.

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the condition of people living in a situation without a government, rules, or laws

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What is a form of government in which citizens are able to vote for officials that represent their beliefs?

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Democracy