HISTORY KEY TERMS LIST 04

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Across
  1. 3. The Constitutional principle that the different levels of government {national, state, and local} have different powers
  2. 4. Information or ideas designed to change people's opinion
  3. 7. To formally approve
  4. 10. The constitutional compromise in which their would be two house of Congress. The Senate would have two representatives from each state and a House of Representatives in which representation was determined by population
  5. 14. The clause in the Constitution that prevents punishment for doing an action that was legal at the time but later illegal
  6. 17. The Constitutional principle that the powers of government should be divided into three branches
  7. 18. The Constitutional principle that it is the government's job to rights of the citizens and that those rights can never be taken away
  8. 20. The written framework of the government of the United States and the contract between the people and the government
  9. 22. Document that served as the first government of the United States
  10. 23. The Constitutional principle that people exercise their power through electing representatives
  11. 24. The Constitutional principle that different branches of government can limit the power of the other branches
  12. 25. Those who were against the ratification of the new Constitution
Down
  1. 1. A person accused of a crime in one state and flees that state should be returned to that state for trial
  2. 2. Those who supported the ratification of the new Constitution
  3. 5. The Constitutional Principle that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime
  4. 6. The clause in the Constitution that states a person cannot be punished for the crimes of his family
  5. 8. A 1787 law that guaranteed Republican Government and forbade slavery in the Northwest Territory
  6. 9. The first ten amendments to the Constitution
  7. 11. The constitutional compromise in which three-fifths of slaves are counted as population for the purpose of representation and taxes
  8. 12. The clause in the Constitution that states have to honor contracts, and court rulings from other states
  9. 13. The Constitutional principle that the power of government belongs to the people
  10. 15. A 1786-87 tax rebellion in Massachusetts that showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
  11. 16. The legal principle that a person detained by the government must be physically brought before a judge and told why he is being detained
  12. 19. A 1785 law that set the rules of the surveying and selling land in the Northwest Territory
  13. 21. To make war against the United States or give aid and comfort to the enemy