Enlightenment to Declaration

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  1. 3. to refuse to have dealings or associations with
  2. 5. A colonist who showed allegiance to England and the king, and who did not wish to declare independence was known by this term.
  3. 6. Thomas _______ is most known for writing "Common Sense"
  4. 7. he supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries
  5. 9. John Locke believed that people are born with a "tabula rasa" or blank _________
  6. 10. A government where voters hold sovereign power and may replace their government through elections or revolution.
  7. 12. "We hold these truths to be self-__________"
  8. 14. The "Sons of __________"
  9. 15. Boston ________ Party
  10. 16. the absence of government
  11. 18. This man was the principle author of the Declaration of Independence.
Down
  1. 1. This political thinker believed that all men are born with Natural Rights: Life, Liberty, and Property
  2. 2. a theory where people surrender certain rights to the government in exchange for order and protection
  3. 4. A system of government where people elect delegates to make laws and to conduct government.
  4. 8. Voltaire believed in the separation of ________ and state
  5. 9. Montesquieu believed in a governmental system that had a ____________ of powers.
  6. 11. _________ Right is the idea that certain people are chosen to rule by God.
  7. 12. An era where political thinkers (or philosophes) met to discuss new ways of approaching and structuring government.
  8. 13. This political thinker believed that all men were born evil and that without a firm ruler, life would be brutish and short.
  9. 17. "When in the course of human events it becomes ____________ for one people to dissolve ..."