chap 18

Group of parliamentary advisors who help set policy

• Senate
• Parliament
• Committee
• Cabinet

Laws that govern human nature

• natural laws

• Rules governing animal behavior
• Principles of physical laws like gravity
• Laws that dictate economic transactions

Powers are defined and limited by law

• Powers are enforced by public opinion.
• constitutinal gov.

• Powers are defined by tradition.
• Powers are unlimited by law.

People give up state of nature for an organized society

• People give up the state of nature for cultural diversity in an organized society.
• People give up the state of nature to pursue individual freedom in an organized society.
• People give up the state of nature for economic gain in an organized society.
• social contract

Business operated with little to no government control

• Socialist economy
• laissez faire

• Command economy
• Regulated market

Looked for natural laws to define a rational economic system

• physiocrats

• Keynesian economics
• Behavioral economics
• Neoclassical economics

Rights belonging to all humans by birth

• natural rights

• Political rights
• Legal rights
• Civil liberties

Informal social gatherings in which people exchanged ideas

• conferences
• debates
• workshops
• salons

Supported urban business interests, toleration

• High taxation on businesses
• Strict zoning regulations
• Anti-business urban policies
• Pro-business urban policies

Aristocrats who supported the royal power an Anglican Church

• Socialists
• Whigs
• Liberal Democrats
• Tories