Constitution Vocabulary

4. To give official approval to
5. Government in which the people rule through elected representatives
8. A formal request
10. Introduction to a formal document
12. A law or regulation
13. Equal in size or corresponding in size
15. A political system in which the power is shared by state governments and the federal government
16. A slowing of economic activity which leads to a rise in unemployment

1. A written formal plan of government
2. Part of a document, such as the Constitution, that deals with a single subject
3. Freeing of individual slaves
6. Consisting of two houses especially in a legislature
7. An addition to a formal document
9. An agreement between two or more sides in which each side gives up something it wants
11. Movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve.
14. A person who supports the Constitution