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Enlightenment Ideas: Social Contracts and Individual Rights
Explain how Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau conceptualized natural rights, the social contract, and modern government.
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Feudal Europe, the Renaissance, and Democratic Foundations
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Analyze medieval European feudalism, the Magna Carta, the Renaissance, and early intellectual roots of representative government.
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