U2.L3: The Roots of American Democracy

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Across
  1. 2. came up with the idea of republicanism, or representative government
  2. 5. Rousseau was a _____-born philosopher who spent much of his life in France
  3. 7. passed the English Bill of Rights in 1689
  4. 9. From the ______ city-state of Athens came the tradition of direct democracy
  5. 10. written grant of authority
  6. 11. The English Bill of Rights reaffirmed the principle of
  7. 13. argued that in the state of nature, all people were equal
  8. 14. Montesquieu is most famous for his book The Spirit of ______
  9. 15. Rousseau further argued that if a government acted contrary to the general _____
Down
  1. 1. believed that because some people used their freedom to prey on others, the result was a war of “every man against every man”
  2. 3. defined the rights and duties of English nobles and set limits on the monarch’s power
  3. 4. the principles of ancient Judaism
  4. 6. Thomas Paine's book, Common _____
  5. 8. _____-contract theory, which stated that people in society agreed to give up some of their freedom to governments in exchange for security and order.
  6. 12. the Magna Carta established the idea of the