Across
- 2. Wrote the Second Treatise, heavily influencing Jefferson’s "Life, Liberty, and Property"
- 3. The committee member who famously changed "sacred and undeniable" to "self-evident"
- 4. The virtue cited as the reason not to change governments for "light and transient causes"
- 6. Site where the 1848 "Declaration of Sentiments" mirrored the 1776 language
- 8. Author of Patriarcha who argued for the divine right of kings
- 9. The "Leviathan" author who argued rights are surrendered for absolute security
- 11. What George III is explicitly called for being "unfit to be the ruler of a free people"
- 13. The long middle section of the document listing complaints against the King
- 14. The physical state of the "Composition Draft" (the oldest surviving piece of the text)
- 17. Scholastic philosopher who defined "Eternal Law" and "Natural Law"
- 18. Rights that cannot be surrendered, sold, or transferred
- 20. The illegal seizure of power, often paired with "abuses" in the text
Down
- 1. The primary draftsman who called the work an "expression of the American mind"
- 5. The 1775 petition that was the Royalists' last-ditch effort at reconciliation
- 7. The Committee of Five member from New York who also did not sign
- 10. The tool used to make "wet-press" copies of the drafts before final printing
- 12. The common name for a Royalist who remained loyal to the British Crown
- 15. The social contract term Hobbes used for the agreement to leave the state of nature
- 16. Printer responsible for the first broadside copies on July 4th
- 19. The "Atlas of Independence" who pushed for the resolution in Congress