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