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Across
- 2. a meeting of the delegates to fix the AOC
- 5. the first 10 amendments of the constitution
- 6. the principle that the law also applies to the government
- 8. a government with only one representative house
- 11. an armed uprising to protest the AOC
- 12. articles written to convince people to support the new constitution
- 13. declares the constitution the supreme law of the land
- 14. a period of philosophy that questioned modern government
- 17. the division of power into seperate branches in a government
- 18. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789
- 19. the principle of shared powers between the state and national governments
Down
- 1. the idea that the government can only do what the people allow it to
- 3. a government with two representative houses
- 4. a compromise where the north and south agreed to have a bicameral house
- 7. the idea that power lies within the people
- 9. actions from other branches to make sure no one branch had too much power
- 10. plan for surveying western lands
- 15. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
- 16. the northwest territory is set up along with a plan to add new states to the union