| A | B |
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| Enlightenment | 18th century movement that rejected traditional social and political ideas |
| Social Contract | Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos |
| Natural Laws | rule or laws that govern human nature |
| Natural Rights | rights that belong to all humans from birth |
| physiocrat | enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economy |
| laissez faire | policy allowing buisness to operate with little government interference |
| free market | economic system free of government interference |
| Rousseau | believed that people were good, but were corrupted by society |
| Locke | believed that people were born with natural rights |
| Voltaire | freedom of speech and thought were most important |
| Montesquieu | believed that separation of powers was the best way to provide liberty |
| Hobbes | wrote Leviathon, believed people were naturally cruel, greedy and selfish |
