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Across
  1. 2. each branch of government is subject to a number of constitutional restraints, or checks, by the other branches so no single branch becomes too powerful
  2. 3. king/queen controls all aspects of life
  3. 5. reached in writing the Constitution to satisfy both small and large states by having one house of Congress with an equal number of representatives for each state and the other house’s membership determined by a state’s population
  4. 6. a compromise between slave states and free states to count three-fifths of the slave population in a state when allocating how many representatives a state was entitled to in the House of Representatives
  5. 7. power is held at the national level, with very little power being held in political subdivisions, such as provinces, states, counties, parishes, or tow
  6. 9. 3rd president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence; he did not take part in writing the Constitution because he was in France at the time. He was a strong advocate for the addition of a Bill of Rights
  7. 10. belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority
  8. 12. “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States; essential to the writing and ratification of the Constitution; he also wrote the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that were ratified as the Bill of Rights
  9. 14. considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
  10. 15. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to pass all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out the other powers listed in Article I
  11. 16. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
Down
  1. 1. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
  2. 4. chosen to preside at the Constitutional Convention; he later became the first president of the United States; he set precedent by stepping down after two terms and initiating a peaceful transition of power
  3. 8. French writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
  4. 11. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
  5. 13. first ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the civil rights and liberties of the people