Across
- 2. Rights that are not dependent on laws or customs of a particular culture or government, and so are universal and inalienable
- 5. a dramatic and wide-reaching change in the way something works or is organized or in people's ideas about it.
- 7. Social contract theory says that people live together in society in accordance with an agreement that establishes moral and political rules of behavior
- 8. a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law.
- 10. Belief that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.
- 12. Method of procedure that consists of observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
- 13. Required enrollment of persons by the government, especially for military service
- 14. popular acceptance of a government, political regime, or system of governance
- 15. the basic principles and laws of a nation, state, or social group that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it
Down
- 1. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
- 3. a political system in which a single monarch, usually a king or queen, holds complete and unrestrained power over a country
- 4. commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation.
- 6. forming a generalization based on what is known or observed.
- 9. the opinions and behavior of people who favor extreme changes especially in government
- 11. the doctrine that kings derive their authority from God, not from their subjects