Constitution

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Across
  1. 3. Congressional representatives that Kansas currently has.
  2. 5. Unified the states and made them agree to work together.
  3. 7. Enforces the laws.
  4. 11. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin became states as a result of this 1787 ordinance.
  5. 15. First 10 amendments to the Constitution.
  6. 16. One of the two states that thrived on the economics of slavery and forbade it from being abolished by the Declaration of Independence.
  7. 18. First state to ratify the Constitution.
  8. 19. All government power comes from the people.
  9. 20. Dividing power between state and national governments.
  10. 24. Massachusetts and New York favored this type of legislature.
  11. 25. Pennsylvania and Georgia favored this type of legislature.
  12. 26. Essay number in The Federalist that supported a system of checks and balances among the three branches of government.
  13. 28. Largely believed to deserve credit for the Bill of Rights.
  14. 30. Compromise that counted slaves as this for the sake of population when determining representatives to Congress.
  15. 31. States needed to declare war or make treaties.
  16. 33. President of the Constitutional Convention.
  17. 34. Interprets the laws.
Down
  1. 1. Only state not present at the Constitutional Convention.
  2. 2. Land north of Ohio and west of Pennsylvania to the Mississippi River.
  3. 4. An agreement to use parts of both the Virginia Plan and New Jersey Plan in drafting the Constitution.
  4. 6. Last state, of the original 13, to ratify the Constitution.
  5. 8. Voter.
  6. 9. When a bill is passed.
  7. 10. Rebellion in 1787 in which farmers protested the courts who wanted to foreclose on their farms in order to pay off import debts.
  8. 12. Government in which people elect their representatives.
  9. 13. Makes the laws.
  10. 14. A group of people chosen from each state to indirectly elect the President.
  11. 17. Along with John Adams, he was also not at the Constitutional Convention.
  12. 21. City where the Declaration of Independence was first read publicly.
  13. 22. Chosen by state legislatures rather than voters. States could have as many as 7 of them.
  14. 23. Even though he owned slaves, he claimed slavery was “the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.”
  15. 27. Supported the Constitution.
  16. 29. Essay number in The Federalist that supported a strong central government.
  17. 32. Which of the two was a Federalist? John Hancock or Ben Franklin.