Social Studies

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  1. 1. protect individuals freedoms.
  2. 2. People that criticized the Constitution because it lacked the bill of rights
  3. 6. the system of courts that interprets and applies law in legal cases
  4. 7. Morris an English-born merchant and a Founding Father of the United States. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania legislature, the Second Continental Congress, and the United States
  5. 9. release from slavery.
  6. 10. of Rights a landmark Act in the constitutional law of England that sets out certain basic civil rights and clarifies who would be next to inherit the Crown.
  7. 12. Hamilton was an American statesman, politician, legal scholar, military commander, lawyer, banker, and economist. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
  8. 13. shays an American soldier, revolutionary, and farmer famous for being one of the leaders and namesake of Shays' Rebellion,
  9. 14. Approved.
  10. 16. and Balances principles of government under which separate branches are empowered to prevent actions by other branches
  11. 18. the action of enlightening or the state of being enlightened.
  12. 19. otis warren a published poet, political playwright and satirist during the age of the American Revolution—a time when women were encouraged and expected to keep silent on political matters.
  13. 20. sovereignty the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives, who are the source of all political power
  14. 21. papers a series of 85 essays arguing in support of the United States Constitution
  15. 23. having the power to make laws.
  16. 25. a long and severe recession in an economy or market
  17. 26. Ordinance an organic act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States
Down
  1. 1. Compromise an agreement between delegates from the Northern and the Southern states at the United States Constitutional Convention that three-fifths of the slave population would be counted for determining direct taxation and representation in the House of Representatives.
  2. 3. Madison America's fourth President (1809-1817), made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers, along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay.
  3. 4. having two branches or chambers
  4. 5. of Confederation an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first constitution
  5. 8. people who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Anti Federalist Party,
  6. 11. a piece of legislation enacted by a municipal authority.
  7. 15. branches of government the executive branch, the legislative branch, and the judicial branch.
  8. 17. Virginia planter.
  9. 22. having the power to put plans, actions, or laws into effect.
  10. 24. Sherman American politician whose plan for representation of large and small states prevented a deadlock at the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787