SOCIAL CONTRACT an actual or hypothetical compact, or agreement, between the ruled or between the ruled and their rulers, defining the rights and duties of each.
Peter the Great
Thomas Hobbes
John locke
reforms and projects which he undertook to westernize Russia from 1696 to 1725.
pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right to revolution
articulation of the theory of separation of powers
heliocentric theory is a theory that places the Sun at the center of the Solar System.
explained the workings of the universe through mathematics.
Issac Newton
justified wide-ranging government powers on the basis of the self-interested consent of citizens.
Fredrick the Great
invented the first powerful telescope, as well as the field of optics.
Catherine the Great
put forth the theory that the Sun is at rest near the center of the Universe, and that the Earth, spinning on its axis once daily, revolves annually around the Sun.
vastly expanded territories and impressive military strength.
establishing educational reform, championing the arts, and extending Russia's borders in the largest territorial gain since Ivan the Terrible.