The Enlightenment
Across
- 6. Known as the "Father of Liberalism"
- 7. Movement to end slavery
- 8. Rights that people supposedly have under natural law
- 10. British writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights
- 12. Holding of political views that favor free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas
- 13. Theory or model that originated during the Age of Enlightenment and usually concerns the legitimacy of the authority of the state over the individual.
- 14. A body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
- 15. French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, and his criticism of Christianity—especially the Roman Catholic Church—and of slavery
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- 1. The advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes
- 2. Political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law
- 3. The sequence of events leading to the deposition of King James II and VII of England and Scotland in November 1688
- 4. Belief in the existence of a supreme being
- 5. The right of women to vote in elections
- 9. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies
- 11. Best known for his 1651 book Leviathan, in which he expounds an influential formulation of social contract theory.