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