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| is an explanation of how or why something happens |
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| the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge |
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| an orderly way of collecting and analyzing evidence |
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| a law that applied to everyone and could be understood to by reason |
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| an agreement between rulers and the people |
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| power is divided among the branches of government: executive, judicial, and legislative |
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| monarchs held absolute, or total power |
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| representative government |
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| a government in which people elect representatives to make laws and conduct government |
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| written plans of government |
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| the idea that government receives its powers from the people |
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| the middle classes in France |
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