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| New way of thinking about the natural world. Based on observation and a willingness to questions accepted beliefs. |
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| New intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems. |
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| Believed that people had natural rights- life, liberty, and property. |
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| Used satire against governments. Believed in freedom of thought and religious freedom. |
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| Believed governments should have a separation of powers, and in checks and balances. |
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| Believed in a direct democracy and basic rights every individual should have |
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| Believed in women’s rights and equality in education, medicine, and politics. |
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| Non-religious look on life. |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| A document declaring the US to be independent of the British Crown, signed on July 4, 1776 |
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| Wrote the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Protected basic rights as freedom of speech, press, assembly, and religion. |
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| Source of traditional English respect for individual rights and liberties. It was a contract between king and nobles of England. |
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| Summary of the rights and liberties essential to the people. Limited the monarchy’s power and protected free speech. |
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| Rights that we are born with. They may not be taken away by government. |
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| Turning point in English constitutional history. Parliament had established its right to limit the English Monarch’s power |
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| Branches of government checking the actions of each other |
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| Life, liberty, and property. |
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| Sets up a strong national government in the United States. |
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| General of South American independence movement. |
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