Enlightenment

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Across
  1. 1. Kings with complete power, ruled without regard to their nation’s people
  2. 6. French writer who championed free speech and criticized religious intolerance
  3. 7. English philosopher who promoted natural rights and government by consent
  4. 8. Basic freedoms all people are born with, like life, liberty, and property
  5. 9. Thinker who proposed the separation of powers in government
  6. 10. Core Enlightenment belief that human logic can solve social and political problems
  7. 11. Focus on worldly concerns and reason rather than religious authority
  8. 12. Philosopher who believed in the general will and wrote The Social Contract
  9. 14. Editor of the Encyclopédie who aimed to compile human knowledge
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  1. 2. The idea that governments derive their power from the people
  2. 3. Believed people are naturally cruel, greedy and selfish.
  3. 4. Philosopher who defined Enlightenment as thinking for oneself
  4. 5. Belief in a non-intervening creator based on reason and nature
  5. 7. Economic principle calling for minimal government interference
  6. 13. Economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations and supported free markets