| A | B |
| natural law | universal moral law |
| natural rights | life, liberty, property |
| pacificism | opposition to violence as a means to settle disputes |
| deism | believed in God; denounced organized religion |
| Thomas Hobbes | used natural law in support of an absolute ruler |
| John Locke | used natural law to support the idea of natural rights |
| Thomas Jefferson | based the Declaration of Jefferson on the ideas of Locke |
| Hugo Grotius | wanted an international code of natural law |
| William Penn | pacfist who founded a Quaker colony |
| Leviathan | book by Hobbes on how men were incapable of civilized society without a monarch |