Government Coming to 'Terms'
Across
- 2. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
- 4. supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong central government with limited government and checks and balances
- 9. considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
- 11. group of people who feared the new government created by Constitution; gave too much power to the national government at the expense of individual rights
- 15. first ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the civil rights and liberties of the people
- 16. the people are the only source of power for any and all government actions; government can only govern with the consent of the governed
- 17. 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
- 18. French writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
- 19. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
- 20. “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
Down
- 1. 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
- 3. belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority
- 5. 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. a representative democracy in which a small group of leaders, elected by the citizens, represents the concerns of the people; the interests of the majority take precedence over the interests of a few.
- 7. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
- 8. 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
- 10. in order for man to live in groups, he must give up some of his freedom to the government in exchange for protection of his natural rights
- 12. English political philosopher whose Social Contract Theory believed that in order to live together, individuals in a society give up their natural rights to a higher authority for the sake of protection
- 13. first plan of government adopted in the United States after the revolution; it was a loose association of states with no authority to tax, no national army, and no chief executive
- 14. 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