Unit 3 Creating the Constitution Vocabulary List

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Across
  1. 1. Carta - a British document signed in 1215 that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights
  2. 4. - to approve
  3. 5. Plan - the plan at the Constitutional Convention that called for a strong national government with three branches and a two-chamber legislature
  4. 9. - a supporter of a strong federal government
  5. 10. - a system of government in which citizens choose representatives to govern them
  6. 12. Jersey Plan - he plan at the Constitutional Convention, favored by smaller states, that called for three branches of government with a single-chamber legislature
  7. 13. - a document that sets out the laws, principles, organization, and processes of a government
  8. 14. corpus - the right not to be held in prison without first being charged with a specific crime
Down
  1. 2. Compromise - a plan at the Constitutional Convention that settled the differences between large and small states
  2. 3. of Confederation - the first American constitution, passed in 1777, which created a loose alliance of 13 independent states
  3. 6. Ordinance - a 1787 law that set up a government for the Northwest Territory
  4. 7. Compromise - an agreement at the Constitutional Convention that three fifths of the enslaved residents in any state be counted in its population
  5. 8. of power - a principle by which the powers of government are divided among separate branches
  6. 11. Ordinance of 1785 - a law that set up a system for settling the Northwest Territory
  7. 15. of Rights - the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  8. 16. - to change