The Enlightenment - was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith., Reason - to critique, to examine existing belief systems and institutions and to analyze them through rational thinking and logic, Natural Law - laws of morality ascertainable through human reason, Natural Rights - life, liberty, and property, Absolute Monarchs - is a form of monarchy in which the monarch rules in their own right or power, Declaration of Independence - the formal proclamation that the colonies would now be an independent country separate from Great Britain., Constitution - is the supreme law of the United States of America, Anti-federalists - a person who opposed the adoption of the U.S. Constitution., Federalists - a person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority., Bill of Rights - the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship., Northwest Ordinance - chartered a government for the Northwest Territory, provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and listed a bill of rights guaranteed in the territory.,

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