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to stop something from happening or end something
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abolish
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system of government where one person has absolute control
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absolute monarchy
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to stop something from happening or end something
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system of government where one person has absolute control
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the person or group of people that a message is for
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(1689-1755) French Enlightenment thinker who wrote The Spirit of Laws and believed that to keep one person or group from gaining too much power a government should be separated into three branches: judicial, legislative, and executive.
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a resident of a town or city, especially one entitled to civic privileges such as voting
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people who work for a church; In the Catholic Church these include the Pope, bishops, and priests
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permission for something to happen or an agreement to do something
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to join together or combine
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the set of basic laws and principles by which a nation, state, or other organization is governed
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a form of government in which a king or queen's powers are restricted by a document (constitution) usually written by representatives of the people who are governed by the king or queen
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(1789) document written by the National Assembly which outline the ideals of the French Revolution
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is the belief that an absolute monarch's authority to rule came directly from God
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Influenced by the writings of the Enlightenment philosophers who supported natural rights, the separation of power in a government, the consent of the governed, social contract, and the freedom of expression.
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(mid-1600s to the late 1700s) a period of time in Western Europe when philosophers and writers applied the scientific idea of reason to answer political questions; The Enlightenment is sometimes known as the Age of Reason
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the state of being equal
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(1789-1799) a political revolution during which the lower and middle class in France, frustrated over social, economic, and political problems in the country and inspired by Enlightenment ideas overthrew King Louis XVI and tried to institute a more democratic government
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to rule or lead
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the group of people that has power to make laws and important decisions for a community, state, or nation
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having to do with characteristics that are passed on from parent to child
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a system for ranking groups of people
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the events that led to an event; includes the time period and larger historical trends as well as causes
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an attempt by one group to become independent from another
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an organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or similar purpose like a government
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a well-educated person
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(1712-1778) French Enlightenment thinker who wrote about the social contract
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(1632-1704) an English Enlightenment thinker who wrote Two Treatises of Governmentand believed that the role of government is to protect people's natural rights (life, liberty, and property), and that government can only get its right to rule from the consent of the governed
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the freedom to do what you would like to do
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(1754-1793) king of France who was overthrown and executed during the French Revolution
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(1759-1797) English writer and philosopher who was an advocate for women's rights and wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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king or queen
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right that all people are born with and that John Locke believed the government should protect including the rights to life, liberty, and property; sometimes called "natural laws"
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to treat in a way that is cruel or not fair
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a person in the lower class
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one who thinks about, questions, and studies the nature of life, truth, knowledge, and other important human matters
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an opinion; a claim
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something someone owns
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the power of the mind to think, understand, and make sense of world
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Montesquieu's idea that government power should be divided into judicial, legislative, and executive branches and that each section of the government should have the ability to check the power of the others
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a government in which a single person rules absolutely in a cruel way
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an attempt to bring social, political, and economic rights to women
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a legislative body made up of representatives from each of the three estates from all of France; called into order by Louis XVI to settle debt issues
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(1789-1791) the elected legislature in France during the first part of the French Revolution
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(June 20, 1789) a promise by the members of the National Assembly to meet until a constitution was written and enacted
