What are two examples of why Catherine Great was an enlightened despot?

1. She used the ideals of the Enlightenment in order to increase the power and security of Russia.

2. Catherine improved the Russian economy through free trade, turned the country's bureaucracy into a more efficient one, and provided the people with social services such as education and health care.

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Catherine the Great was a keen scholar of Enlightenment thinkers and was determined to bring their ideas to Russia when she became Empress. To that end, when the Encyclopedie was banned in France because of its atheistic tone, she offered to publish it in Russia.

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a social contract.

"a social contract is an agreement between citizens and their leader where the citizens give up certain freedoms in exchange for protection. the constitution of the united states is an example of a social contract."

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