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| Montesquieu | Philosophe that promoted checks and balances and separation of powers |
| Voltaire | Philosophe that was known for his criticism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious toleration |
| Diderot | Edited the first Encyclopedia that helped to spread many Enlightenment ideas |
| Adam Smith | Physiocrat that is considered to be one of the founders of the modern social science of economics |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Philosophe that wrote The Social Contract where he states that society should agree to be governed by its general will |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | Many people see this philosophe as the founder of modern European and American movement for women's rights |
| 3 Branches of Government | Executive, Legislative, and Judicial |
| Laissez-faire | The concept that the state should nto impose government regulations but should leave the economy alone |
| Separation of Powers | Where each branch limits and controls each other in a system of checks and balances to prevent any one group from gaining too much power |
| Religious Toleration | Voltaire is known for his strong belief in this... |
| Physiocrats | Intellectuals who are interested in identifying the natural economic laws that govern human society |
| Social Contract | An agreement between the government and the governed to be ruled according to their general will |
| Deism | An 18th century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law |
| John Locke | Philosophe that argued that everyone was born with a blank slate and that people were formed by their own experiences and their environment |
| Deists View | View that a mechanic (God) had created the universe, set it in motion, and allowed it to run without his interference and according to its own natural laws |
| Experiences | John Locke argued that people were formed by their own ____ and their environment |
