Ch. 7 Vocabulary

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