Chapter 2 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. a compromise between the Virginia Plan and the New Jersey Plan that created a two-house Congress; representation based on population in the House of Representatives and equal representation of states in the Senate
  2. 6. the powers given explicitly to the federal government by the Constitution (Article I, Section 8); power to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, raise and support armies, declare war, coin money, and conduct foreign affairs
  3. 8. a plan that called for a one-house national legislature; each state would receive one vote
  4. 9. a compromise between northern and southern states that called for counting of all a state’s free population and 60 percent of its slave population for both federal taxation and representation in Congress
  5. 14. the statement in Article VI of the Constitution that federal law is superior to laws passed by state legislatures
  6. 15. the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution; most were designed to protect fundamental rights and liberties
  7. 17. those who supported ratification of the Constitution
  8. 19. those who did not support the ratification of the Constitution
  9. 20. the power of the president to reject a law proposed by Congress
  10. 21. the first basis for the new nation’s government, adopted in 1781, created an alliance of sovereign states held together by a weak central government
  11. 22. a plan for a two-house legislature; representatives would be elected to the lower house based on each state’s population; representatives for the upper house would be chosen by the lower house
  12. 23. a form of government in which power is divided between state governments and a national government
Down
  1. 1. any powers not prohibited by the Constitution or delegated to the national government; powers reserved to the states and denied to the federal government
  2. 3. a highly decentralized form of government; sovereign states form a union for purposes such as mutual defense
  3. 4. a legislature with two houses, such as the U.S. Congress
  4. 5. a collection of eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in support of ratification of the Constitution
  5. 7. a document written in 1776 in which the American colonists proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and listed their grievances against the British king
  6. 10. a legislature with only one house, like the Confederation Congress or the legislature proposed by the New Jersey Plan
  7. 11. a form of government in which political power rests in the hands of the people, not a monarch, and is exercised by elected representatives
  8. 12. a system that allows one branch of government to limit the exercise of power by another branch; it requires the different parts of government to work together
  9. 13. an agreement between people and the government in which citizens consent to be governed so long as the government protects their natural rights
  10. 16. the right to life, liberty, and property; believed to be given by God; no government may take away
  11. 18. the sharing of powers among the three separate branches of government