Unit 3 Vocabulary Def.

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