Lighting up the Enlightenment!

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Across
  1. 2. Making sure no branch gets too big for its britches
  2. 5. The people are the ultimate boss and for most things the majority should rule
  3. 8. Everyone votes on everything (imagine the group chat notifications)
  4. 9. Government by representatives because town halls would take forever with 330 million people
  5. 10. Life, liberty, and property according to Locke (Jefferson made a small edit later)
  6. 11. Nobody is above the law, not even people with really good lawyers
  7. 16. When people stopped asking priests and started asking "What would Newton do?"
  8. 17. Swiss philosopher who believed in people power (before it was cool)
  9. 18. Philosopher whose ideas American Founding Fathers swiped for many parts of our democracy
  10. 19. Hobbes' deal where people trade freedom for protection
  11. 20. When 18th-century philosophers decided to think outside the box (and outside the church)
  12. 23. Locke's idea that government needs permission from the people to get its power
  13. 24. Executive, legislative, judicial like rock, paper, scissors but with slower results
Down
  1. 1. Most votes win, but don't forget about the little guy
  2. 3. Protection for the outvoted because mob rule isn't always right
  3. 4. Philosopher who thought life was nasty, brutish, and short
  4. 6. Hobbes' idea of life without government: basically Black Friday shopping, but every day
  5. 7. Splitting government jobs like chores among roommates
  6. 12. Locke's holy trinity of natural rights
  7. 13. What Machiavelli said leaders should focus on (hint: it's not friendship bracelets)
  8. 14. Italian who wrote the ultimate "How to Win Friends and Intimidate People" guide
  9. 15. The government style that made "off with their heads" a popular catchphrase for millennia
  10. 21. Government with boundaries like a teenager with a curfew
  11. 22. French baron who gave America its governmental three branch structure (merci beaucoup!)