Ch. 7 Vocabulary
Across
- 7. the freeing of individual enslaved persons
- 8. the lawmaking branch of government
- 10. having the proper size in relation to other objects or items
- 15. gave english people protection from cruel and unusual punishment and said that even kings and queens were bound by the law
- 16. a settlement of a disagreement reached by each side giving up some of what it wants in order to reach an agreement
- 17. a change, correction, or improvement added to a document
- 18. a period when economic activity slows and unemployment increases
- 21. a government in which citizens rule through elected representatives
- 22. the branch of government that executes, or carries out, the law and that is headed by the president
Down
- 1. declared that the powers of government should be separated and balanced against each other. This separation would prevent any one person or group from gaining too much power.
- 2. a form of government in which power is divided
- 3. the federal, or national, government and state governments
- 4. law
- 5. a system by which each branch of government limits power of other branches
- 6. stated that the ruler could not suspend Parliament’s laws, impose taxes, or raise an army without Parliament’s consent.
- 9. a group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president
- 11. colonists who opposed the constitution and demanded a Bill of rights
- 12. having two separate lawmaking chambers
- 13. The English philosopher Locke wrote that all people have natural rights. He stated that these natural rights include the rights to life, liberty, and property.
- 14. to fall in value
- 19. colonists who supported the constitution
- 20. a former continental army captain that led Shays’s rebellion