Unit 2 Vocabulary

A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition

• Consent

• Enlightenment

• State of Nature

Giving your permission for something or to someone.

How people act without rules or government 

• State of Nature

• Natural Rights

• Anarchy

Giving up some of your rights because you want good for others.

• State of Nature

• Social Contract

• Sovereign

Rights that everyone has like the right to life, liberty and property 

• Enlightenment

• State of Nature

• Natural Rights

The top legislative body in a country, for example in Great Britain.

• Legislative Branch

• Parliament

• Common Law

Highest power of a nation, usually the leader of a nation 

• Subjects

• Sovereign

• Rule of Law

Unwritten laws based on previous court decisions. Court-made laws versus congress-made laws.

• Common Law

• Rule of Law

• Enlightenment

Someone who owes allegiance to a government or ruler. 

The idea that both those who govern and those who are governed must follow the same laws.

• Enlightenment

• Government

• Rule of Law