Bill of Rights

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Across
  1. 5. The Virginia Declaration of Rights, written by _______, strongly influenced Madison.
  2. 7. _______ shall not be required
  3. 9. Virginia’s legislature became the last to ratify the amendments on ______ 15, 1791.
  4. 10. Who argued that the Constitution did not need a bill of rights
  5. 12. The person lists specific prohibitions on governmental power
  6. 13. A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
  7. 15. No person shall be held to answer for a ______, or otherwise infamous crime
Down
  1. 1. The person who wrote the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
  2. 2. The House approved 17 _______
  3. 3. Who objected that Congress had no authority to change the wording of the Constitution itself
  4. 4. In all criminal ________, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial
  5. 6. the right of trial by jury shall be _______
  6. 8. The powers not delegated to the United States by the __________
  7. 11. The Bill of Rights is a list of limits on ______ power
  8. 14. Other precursors to the Bill of Rights include English documents such as the _____________