The Enlightened State

Foreign names, words and phrases:

Voltaire

Diderot

Evisceration

Absolutism

Frederick II of Prussia

Catherine II of Russia

Joseph II of Austria

Largesse

Benign

Apogee

Cardinal Richelieu

Sumptuous

Centripetal

Parish 

Lord Acton

Abrogation

Whim

Montesquieu

Whittled away

William Blackstone

Judith Shklar

Oracle

James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

John Adams