Enlightenment

Rules that can be discovered through logic and reason

Author of Candide who argued against organized religion

Produced the Encyclopedia

The systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence

Economic doctrine which stated the state should not interrupt free play or impose regulations

Wrote The Social Contract in which people should be ruled by the general will

Type of monarchy when rulers try to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining powers

Division of governmental power into executive, legislative, and judicial branches

Name for French Enlightenment thinkers

The Enlightened argument that gov. should protect citizen's natural rights is seen in

How did the US Constitution reflect Enlightenment ideas?

All are examples of reforms made by enlightened despots EXCEPT

Author of Wealth of Nations

Developed the theory of separation of powers

Diderot's Encyclopedia was important because it

British feminist who fought for equal education for women

Restriction of access to information and ideas

Which summarizes the Enlightenment view of women?

An enlightened despot was a ruler who

Believed in an absolute monarchy because people are naturally greedy and selfish 

The separation of powers in the U.S. gov. is based on a theory by 

Hands- off economic policy

Intellectuals of Enlightenment

Catherine the Great is considered an enlightened despot because she

All are events that led to the Enlightenment EXCEPT:

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from

Concept that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will

Believed in a limited government that protected citizens natural rights 

People give up certain freedoms in order to live in an organized society

Believed in a social contract where citizens gave up freedom for an ordered society

Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal

Adam Smith argued that, in a free market, activity is regulated by forces of