Forming a government

2. the plan for goverment proposed at the Constitutional Convention.
5. the first 10 amendments to the constitution.
9. the documents that created the first central government for the United States.
11. official change, correction, or addition to a law or Constitution.
13. a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment.
15. the division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts; interprets laws, punishes criminals, and settles disputes between states.
17. voting rights
19. a system established by the constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful.
21. trade between two or more states.
23. led a rebellion about 1,000 Massachusetts farmers.
24. "Father of the constitution"
25. the division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws.

1. an agreement worked out at the Constitutional convention establishing that a state's population would determine representation in the lower house of the legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper house of the legislature.
3. people who opposed the ratification of the Constitution.
4. the idea that political authority belongs to the people.
6. taxes on imported goods.
7. A set of basic principles that determines the powers and duties of a government.
8. a proposal to create a unicamerl legislature with equal representation rather than representation by population.
10. an official approval.
12. a charter of liberties agreed to by King John of England, it made the king obey the same laws as citizens.
14. U.S system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states.
16. a meting held in Philadelphia at which delegates from the states wrote the Constitution.
18. people who supported the ratification of the Constitution.
20. a general and progressive increase in prices.
22. the division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative departments.