CONSTITUTION WEEK 2

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Across
  1. 3. a group of people who have the power to make laws (Congress)
  2. 5. the legislature of the United States government
  3. 6. a meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new Constitution
  4. 7. an action taken by Congress to reverse or overrule a presidential veto
  5. 9. large state proposal for the new constitution, calling for equal representation
  6. 11. lower legislative house of the United States Congress
  7. 12. Executive, Legislative,Judicial
Down
  1. 1. agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in Congress
  2. 2. council of representatives in the house of the Untied States Congress
  3. 4. proposal by small states that called for equal representation of each state in Congress reguarless of the state's population
  4. 8. system used to keep the government from getting too powerful in one branch
  5. 10. compromise made by Constitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in Congress