| A | B |
|---|
| Thomas Hobbe | People enter a social contract |
| John Locke | people have natural rights |
| Voltaire | freedom of thought |
| Baron de Montesquieu | separation of powers |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | the good of the community |
| Devine Right of Kings | Kings ruled by God |
| Social Contract | an agreement among individuals in a society or between the people and their government that describes the rights and duties of each party. |
| Absolutism | a political system in which the power of a ruler is unchecked and without limits. |
| Common Good | the advantage or benefit of everyone |
| Enlightenment | an 18th-century intellectual movement in western Europe that emphasized reason and science in philosophy and in the study of human culture and the natural world. |
| Natural Rights | a set of principles based on what are assumed to be the permanent characteristics of human nature |
| Philosophes | French enlightenment philosophers. |
