U.S. History Lab
Across
- 5. This branch is made up of Congress.
- 8. An addition or alternation made to a constitution,state,or legislative bill or resolution.
- 9. This branch consist of the president,his or her advisors and various departments and agencies.
- 11. First ten amendments to the constitution.
- 13. Father of the constitution.
- 15. What amendment is protection from unreasonable searches or seizures.
- 18. This amendment has the rights to the state.
- 19. This amendment is right to bear arms.
- 20. This person used the "necessary and proper clause" to justify the forming a national bank.
Down
- 1. The distribution of power between the federal government and the states within the union.
- 2. A philosophy of limited government with elected representatives that serve at the will of the people.
- 3. System does not allow any one of branch of government to have to much power.
- 4. Balances the power of law of the land and protects individual person from it.
- 6. The official way to confirm something, usually by a vote.
- 7. The process by which the U.S. citizenship is granted to a lawful permanent resident after meeting the requirements established.
- 10. The three fifths compromise is about a certain group of people. What is this group called?
- 12. Anti federalist leader who believed in the need to restrict governmental power.
- 14. The concept that political power rests with the people who can create alter and abolish government.
- 16. Large state plan that proposed representation based on population.
- 17. A body of fundamental principles or established precedents.