Chapter 3 Key Terms

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Across
  1. 2. Meetings of state delegates in 1787 leading to a new Constitution
  2. 8. 1787 law that set up government for the Northwest Territory
  3. 10. The split of authority among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches
  4. 11. A system in which each branch of government is able to restrain the powers of the others.
  5. 13. The lawmaking branch of the government
  6. 17. Agreement providing a dual system of congressional representation
  7. 18. The idea that power lies in the people
  8. 22. Powers directly granted to the government by the Constitution
  9. 24. An uprising of farmers in Massachusetts to protest heavy state taxes
  10. 26. The branch of the government that carries out laws
  11. 28. A form of government in which power is divided between national and state governments
Down
  1. 1. Powers shared by the state and federal governments
  2. 3. The principle that the law applies to everyone, even those who govern
  3. 4. The first constitution of the United States of America
  4. 5. A government that can only do what the people allow it to do
  5. 6. A supporter of the Constitution
  6. 7. A law, usually of a city or county
  7. 9. The branch of government that interprets laws
  8. 12. A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice-president
  9. 14. A legislature consisting of two parts or houses
  10. 15. Powers the Constitution does not give to the federal government that's set aside for the states
  11. 16. One of several main parts of the Constitution
  12. 19. The opening section of the Constitution
  13. 20. Any change in the Constitution
  14. 21. A detailed written plan for government
  15. 23. To vote approval of
  16. 25. A clause stating that the Constitution and other laws made by the national government are the "supreme Law of the Land"
  17. 27. A group of individuals or state governments