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The Enlightenment - Coggle Diagram

- - - - People learn from experience and improve
      - Criticized absolute monarchy and favored self-government
        
        Government by popular consent
        
        Right to rebel against unjust rulers
      - People are born free and equal
      - Natural rights: Life, Liberty, and Property
        
        The government should protect these rights
    - - Social Contract
        
        Men are selfish by nature and need governments to keep order
        
        People act in their own self interest
        
        The ruler must have absolute power - absolute monarchy
        
        Agreement between a society and its government
- - - - "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
    - - A legitimate government came from the consent of the governed - direct democracy
      - Agreement among free individuals to create a society and a government