Foundations of US Government Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a system of courts of law
  2. 6. voluntary members in society are of equal standing in terms of political power or influence
  3. 9. taking part in the democratic process
  4. 10. a party or group (as within a government)
  5. 14. making citizens present in public policy
  6. 16. Rights the rights given to all humans, simply for the sake of being human
  7. 18. a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government
  8. 19. the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law
Down
  1. 1. a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World
  2. 3. set of written laws creating separation of powers
  3. 4. an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades.
  4. 5. the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship
  5. 7. an agreement among the 13 original states of the United States of America that served as its first frame of government.
  6. 8. the model of democracy used by Founders
  7. 11. First hand account of an event
  8. 12. delegates to the Constitutional Convention and helped draft the Constitution of the United States.
  9. 13. interpretations of primary sources
  10. 15. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
  11. 17. government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony.