SS8 U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights

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Across
  1. 8. to change something, usually an official or governmental document or law
  2. 9. a loose alliance amongst states or countries
  3. 10. the first American constitution: it was ultimately rejected for a more federalist constitution
  4. 11. a form of government in which the people are independent and govern through elected officials
  5. 12. Bill of Rights law: anything that the U.S. Constitution doesn't explain that Congress can specifically do is left to individual states and citizens to decide
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  1. 1. Bill of Rights law: U.S. government can't make any law favoring one religion over another religion; it can't keep any citizen from saying whatever they want; it can't prevent any U.S. newspaper, magazine, book, movie, radio station, television broadcast, or internet influencers from presenting the ideas or opinions they choose; it can't stop citizens from meeting peacefully
  2. 2. Bill of Rights law: U.S. government can't search a person, their home, or their documents and property unless a legal reason can be first presented to a judge
  3. 3. early North Carolina citizens who thought all free adult men should be able to vote, regardless of wealth, including free black men and Native American men living outside of tribal lands
  4. 4. a government with only one house of democratically-elected representatives
  5. 5. a distinctly American idea: government should be divided into three equally-strong branches in order to keep any one group from having too much power
  6. 6. Bill of Rights law: U.S. government can't stop people from having and carrying weapons
  7. 7. wealthier men, mainly planters from eastern North Carolina, who believed wealthy, educated men were the best leaders; they wanted to limit voting and office-holding to men who owned a lot of property