unit 2 project vocab crossword

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  1. 6. an agreement among the 13 states of the United States of America
  2. 7. a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede
  3. 8. the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
  4. 10. a series of legislative bodies, with some executive function, for thirteen of Britain's colonies in North America, and the newly declared United States just before, during, and after the American Revolutionary War.
  5. 14. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
  6. 16. he concept of a government limited in power.
  7. 17. were a long series of English laws that developed, promoted, and regulated English ships, shipping, trade, and commerce between other countries and with its own colonies.
  8. 18. the political philosophy that all citizens and institutions within a country, state, or community are accountable to the same laws, including lawmakers and leaders.
  9. 19. the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia.
  10. 20. took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787.
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  1. 1. an original Act of the English Parliament and has been in the custody of Parliament since its creation.
  2. 2. a combined or compound mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system, dividing the powers between the two.
  3. 3. a process under which executive, legislative and administrative actions are subject to review by the judiciary.
  4. 4. a proposal to the United States Constitutional Convention for the creation of a supreme national government with three branches and a bicameral legislature.
  5. 5. the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.
  6. 9. an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain.
  7. 11. the supreme law of the United States of America.
  8. 12. n armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades.
  9. 13. is the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Pennsylvania State House
  10. 15. a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.