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natural law a body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct. natural right any right that exists by virtue of natural law enlightened despot a form of absolute monarchy laissez faire an environment in which transactions between private parties are free from state intervention salon a gather place for people under the roof of political right. cencorship the control of the information and ideas circulated within a society deficit spending government spending in excess of revenue of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation blockade an act of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people form entering or leaving bourgeoise the middle class (3rd estate) emigre after the French revolution, there were the nobles that moved out of France nationalism patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts sans culottes a lower class Parisian republican in the French Revolution suffrage the right to vote in political elections tariffs a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports plebiscites a direct vote of all the members of an electorate on an important public question like a change in the constitution scorched-earth policy a military strategy or operational method which involves destroying anything that might be useful to the enemy abdicate to give up power exile the state of being barred from one's native country, typically for political reasons.