Enlightenment Crossword
Across
- 2. These provided a place for women and men to congregate for intellectual discourse.
- 6. A formal meeting or series of meetings for discussion between delegates, especially those from a political party or labor union or from within a particular discipline.
- 8. An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
- 9. The intellectuals of the 18th-century Enlightenment.
- 10. The belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe.
- 13. An act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
- 17. A form of government in the 18th century in which absolute monarchs pursued legal, social, and educational reforms inspired by the Enlightenment.
- 18. A form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a written or blended constitution.
- 19. An economic system in which private business operates in competition and largely free of state control.
- 21. A doctrine in political theory that government is created by and subject to the will of the people.
- 22. An English philosopher and physician, commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism".
- 23. A system that divides up power between a strong national government and smaller local governments.
- 24. A tribunal presided over by a judge, judges, or a magistrate in civil and criminal cases.
- 25. A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
Down
- 1. An English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.
- 3. A British Law, passed by the Parliament of Great Britain in 1689 that declared the rights and liberties of the people and settling the succession in William III and Mary II following the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
- 4. A Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century.
- 5. A French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church.
- 7. The elected head of a republican state.
- 11. A form of democracy in which people decide policy initiatives directly.
- 12. Was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment.
- 14. An English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy.
- 15. This style is characterized by soft colors and curvy lines, and depicts scenes of love, nature, amorous encounters, light-hearted entertainment, and youth.
- 16. A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
- 20. An Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.