American Government Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. everyone has the same rules
  2. 4. The authority of the court to strike down any law passed by congress
  3. 7. makes laws
  4. 10. Those who supported the Constitution during the ratification period
  5. 11. Imposed new taxes on imports
  6. 12. Prohibits slavery
  7. 13. Rules by the people
  8. 14. Document or set of documents that establish the basic rules and procedure for how a society shall be governed
  9. 16. power resides with electorate, who then designates
  10. 17. Compromise over slavery at the Constitutional Convection that granted states extra representation
  11. 19. led a protest movement of debt-ridden farmers facing foreclosures on their homes and farms
  12. 20. Required colonist to export certain items only to Britain.
  13. 21. government bound by a written document
  14. 26. executes the laws
  15. 27. Those who opposed the new proposed Constitution
  16. 29. balance
  17. 30. Imposed new taxes on almost all paper products
Down
  1. 2. A social contract
  2. 3. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government
  3. 5. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by Congress
  4. 6. 12 states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation
  5. 8. interprets the law
  6. 9. Powers retained by the states under the constitution
  7. 15. to share powers with other branches
  8. 18. separation/sharing powers between national and state governments
  9. 22. vice president under John Adams
  10. 23. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause
  11. 24. forms a process of changing the constitution
  12. 25. a listing of rights retained by the people that Congress did not have the authority to take away
  13. 28. proposed a convection of states to consider granting the national government the power to tax and regulate trade