US Constitution Crossword

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  1. 5. The idea that governments should be based on the consent of the people
  2. 7. The branch of government that makes laws.
  3. 8. The branch of government that administers and enforces the laws
  4. 11. A compromise that called for 3/5ths of a state's slaves to be counted as population for both representation and taxation.
  5. 15. Created and proposed the Virginia Plan and known as the father of the constitution
  6. 17. 1787 A law that established a procedure for the admission of new states to the Union.
  7. 20. An opponent of a strong central government
  8. 21. A compromise that offered a two-house Congress to satisfy both small and big states.
  9. 22. A political system in which a national government and constituent units, such as state governments, share power
  10. 23. An uprising of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers protesting increased state taxes
  11. 24. Supporters of the Constitution that favored the new Constitution's balance of power between the states and national government.
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  1. 1. A document adopted by the Second Continental Congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States
  2. 2. A series of essays defending and explaining the Constitution, written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
  3. 3. The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, added in 1791 and consisting of a formal list of citizens' rights and freedoms.
  4. 4. The branch of government that interprets the laws and the Constitution
  5. 6. The official approval of the Constitution, or of an amendment, by the states.
  6. 9. A plan proposed by William Paterson that proposed a single house congress in which each state had an equal vote.
  7. 10. the providions in the US Constitution that prevent any branch of the US government from dominating the other two branches
  8. 12. Alliance
  9. 13. A plan proposed by James Madison that proposed a bicameral (two house) legislature, with membership based on each state's population.
  10. 14. Political leader from Connecticut that suggested the Great Compromise
  11. 16. A government in which citizens rule through their elected representatives
  12. 18. A group selected by the states to elect the president and the vice-president, in which each state's number of electorsis equal to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress.
  13. 19. 1785 Established a plan for surveying and selling the federally owned lands west of the Appalachian Mountains