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 the right to govern through the consent of the people

• Popular sovereignty-

•  Federal system

• Enlightened absolutism

• Successors

a form of government in which power is shared between the national and state governments

• Popular sovereignty-

• federal system

• philosophe French

• separation of powers

 French for

"philosopher"; applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment

• laissez-faire

• deism

• separation of powers

• philosophe

an eighteenth-century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law

• salon

• social contract

• deism

• laissez-faire

a form of government in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches limit and control each other through a system of checks and balances

• social contract

• deism

• separation of powers

• rococo

the concept that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will and all individuals should be forced to abide by it since it represents what is best for the entire community

• social contract

• salons

• rococo

• laissez-faire

the elegant urban drawing rooms where, in the eighteenth century, writers, artists, aristocrats, government officials, and wealthy middle-class people gathered to discuss the ideas of the philosophes

• salons

• deism

• rococo

• laissez-faire

 an artistic style that replaced baroque in the 1730s; it was highly secular, emphasizing grace, charm, and gentle action

• Federal system

• Empiricism

• rococo

• Rationalism

centered; a system of planetary motion in which the sun, moon, and other planets revolve around the Earth

• Geocentric

• Philosophe

• Successors

• Federal system

sun-centered;

the system of the universe in which the Earth and planets revolve around the sun

• Rationalism

• Universal law of gravitation

• heliocentric

• Successors