Forming a New Government

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  1. 4. Delegates debated over how much ___ should be given to the new national government.
  2. 5. A weakness of the Articles of Confederation: could not ___.
  3. 7. First formal plan of government for the United States was the _____ of Confederation.
  4. 11. The President is head of this Branch.
  5. 12. Number of states needed to ratify the Constitution.
  6. 13. President of the Constitutional Convention and President when the Bill of Rights was ratified
  7. 14. The Constitution was written at a ___ that met in Philadelphia in 1787
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  1. 1. The Great ____ settled the issue of representation with a two-house legislature.
  2. 2. Principle of government that divides power between state and national government.
  3. 3. Father of the Constitution
  4. 6. The delegates _____ the Constitution at the end of the Convention.
  5. 8. This branch makes the laws.
  6. 9. The Bill of __ is a written guarantee of our individual freedoms.
  7. 10. A first amendment freedom.