| A | B |
|---|
| Natural Rights | Rights that you are born with, like life, liberty & property |
| Natural Law | things you know not to do, even if there is no government to tell you not to do it. Also can be laws created to protect your natural rights. |
| State of Nature | when no government or laws exist |
| social contract | You give up your right to do whatever you want in exchange for protection from the government (you have to follow laws/rules) |
| Consent of the governed | You agree to a social contract (government), but if the government doesn't protect the rights of the people, the people can alter or abolish (change or get rid of) the government. |
| Purpose of government | to protect the natural rights of the people that they can't effectively protect in a state of nature. |
| Separation of Power | dividing the power of the government into 3 different places |
| Checks and balances | giving the branches ways to stop the other branches from doing things they don't agree with and spreading the power between them as evenly as possible. |
