The Enlightenment (Chapter 35) - Vocab Only

a place where Enlightenment thinkers exchanged and debated ideas

• Salon

• Forum

• Coffeehouse

• Assembly

a form of government in which the monarch's power is limited by a basic set of laws, or constitution

• Constitutional monarchy

• Autocracy

• Oligarchy

• Anarchy

a list of basic human rights that a government must protect

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• Habeas corpus

John Locke said that the purpose of government was to protect rights given by nature simply because they were human. (Life, Liberty, and Property)

• Natural rights

• Separation of powers

• Habeas corpus

• Responsibilities

Montesquieu said that this division of powers among separate branches of government was necessary otherwise one branch would be too powerful

• Separation of powers

• Habeas corpus

• Natural rights

• Salon

rule by a tyrant

• Despotism

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

a name used in place of a writer's real name

• Pen name

• Tolerance

• Despotism

• Salon

the acceptance of different beliefs and customs

• Tolerance

• Criminology

• Despotism

• Bill of Rights

the scientific study of crime and punishment

• Criminology

• Capital punishment

• Tolerance

• Separation of powers

punishment by death; also called the death penalty

• Capital punishment

• Criminology

• Tolerance

• Bill of Rights