Creating the Constitution

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Across
  1. 1. This compromise reduced African slaves to something less than a person
  2. 2. Constitutional goal: To Secure the _______ of Liberty to Ourselves and Our Posterity
  3. 3. The Constitution neither gives these to Congress, nor denies them to the states
  4. 4. The opponents of the Constitution
  5. 5. This system gives each branch of government ways to limit the powers of the other two
  6. 8. A group that supported the Constitution and a strong national government
  7. 9. Approval of a compact (Article 7 deals with this)
  8. 12. A plan proposed by James Madison that favored large states
  9. 14. Proposed by William Paterson, favored small states
  10. 17. Constitutional Goal: To Ensure Domestic _______
  11. 18. Constitutional goal: To _______ Justice
  12. 20. Changes to the Constitution
Down
  1. 1. Plan proposed by Roger Sherman that forced each side to give up some of what they wanted in the Constitution
  2. 6. The absence of this in the original Constitution troubled the Anti-Federalists
  3. 7. Article 4 deals with these
  4. 10. _______ Hamilton, one of the authors of the Federalist Papers
  5. 11. Patrick _____, most outspoken member of the Anti-Federalists
  6. 13. Powers that are shared by the federal and state governments
  7. 15. Article 1 forms this branch of government
  8. 16. Two-house legislature
  9. 19. To accuse