Quick Write:

Is it beneficial to give
government the power of
control over us?
Why or why not?

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Natural laws: Patterns and explanations of the world discovered
through reason and the Scientific Method; used by the Greeks in place of
superstition and traditional explanations of the world.

Enlightenment: An 18th Century European movement in which thinkers

attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to
all aspects of society.

Social Contract: The agreement by which people define and limit their
individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.

Reason: The capacity for consciously making sense of things based on

new or existing information.

Scientific Method: A procedure for gathering information about the

natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test
hypotheses.