Global 10 - Unit 2A Vocabulary

the action of stopping or ending something, such as the reform movement to end slavery

• foreign
• social contract
• abolition
• liberty

king or queen with complete or total control

• absolute monarch
• reason
• shogun
• samurai

misuse of one’s position in power, usually government

• abuse of power
• reform
• social contract
• natural rights

permission given by the people in a country to the government allowing them to rule, usually through voting; what most people believe

• abuse of power
• general will / consent of the governed
• separation of powers
• anarchy

the group of people that has power to make laws and important decisions for a community, state, or nation

• absolute monarch
• suffrage
• natural rights
• government

the freedom to do what you’d like to do

• reform
• suffrage
• liberty
• monotheistic

rights that all people are born with; sometimes called "natural laws"

• unnatural rights
• reform
• abuse of power
• natural rights

the power of the mind to think, understand, and make sense of the world

• reason
• social contract
• suffrage
• government

to make changes in something to improve it; the action or process of changing something

• reason
• reform
• liberty
• isolationism

Montesquieu's idea that government power should be divided into judicial, legislative, and executive branches and that each section of the government should have the ability to check the power of the others

• suffrage
• general will / consent of the governed
• separation of powers
• natural rights