More Perfect Union Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. agreement to count every 5 slaves as 3 free persons for the purpose of state taxation and legislative representation.
  2. 7. sharing power between the federal and state government.
  3. 8. having two separate lawmaking chambers.
  4. 10. a law
  5. 11. established rules for admitting new states orderly in the future expansion of the United States.
  6. 12. constitution resulted in a two-house legislature with a House of Representatives based on population and the Senate with equal representation of 2 per state.
  7. 13. farmers in Massachusetts rebelled against courts foreclosing their farms
  8. 14. basic rights people are born with, also called unalienable rights
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  1. 1. an alliance of states created for a common purpose
  2. 2. first form of government in the United States
  3. 3. the lawmaking branch of government.
  4. 4. adopted in 1787 established the basic principles and laws of the United States that determined the powers and duties of the government and guarantees certain rights to the people in it.
  5. 6. the branch of government that included the courts that settled disputes and questions of the law.
  6. 9. the branch of government that executes, or carries out the law; headed by the president.