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heroic couplet  a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines that reach completion in structure and in sense at the end of the second line
laissez-faire (French, "allow to act")  a general policy of noninterference in the economy, defended by such classical economists as Adam Smith
philosophes (French, "philosophers")  the intellectuals of the European Enlightenment
social contract  an agreement made between citizens leading to the establishment of the state





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