Government Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
  2. 4. leading supporter of US constitution
  3. 5. father of the constitution
  4. 9. king/queen controls all aspect of life
  5. 12. power is held at the national level
  6. 15. Democracy type of democracy based on the protection of individual rights
  7. 17. division of the powers in our government among the legislative
  8. 18. the citizens have political authority and are bound by social contract to obey laws with their rights
  9. 19. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
  10. 20. 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
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  1. 1. first plan of government adopted in the United States after the revolution
  2. 3. believed in natural rights
  3. 6. first ten amendments to the
  4. 7. supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong government
  5. 8. 1st president
  6. 10. 3rd president of the US and author of the Declaration of Independence
  7. 11. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
  8. 13. a representative democracy in which a small group of leader
  9. 14. explains the purposes of the Constitution
  10. 16. government is defined by law and serves the people