Across
- 2. A social ranking system for people.
- 5. The concept that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will and all individuals should be forced to abide by it since it represents what is best for the entire community.
- 7. A systematic procedure for collecting and analysing evidence.
- 8. People that work for a church, including the Pope, bishops and priests.
Down
- 1. A form of government in which the executive, legislative and judicial branches limit and control each other through a system of checks and balances.
- 3. An eighteenth-century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law.
- 4. The elegant urban drawing rooms where, in the eighteenth century, writers, artists, aristocrats, government offcials and wealthy middle-class people gathered to discuss the ideas of the philosophes.
- 6. French for "philosopher"; applied to all intellectuals during the Enlightenment.