Vocab Crossword
Across
- 1. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
- 4. supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong central government with limited government and checks and balances
- 6. 3rd president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence; he did not take part in writing the Constitution because he was in France at the time. He was a strong advocate for the addition of a Bill of Rights
- 11. out the other powers listed in Article I
- 12. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to pass all laws “necessary and proper” to
- 14. first plan of government adopted in the United States after the revolution; it was a loose association of states with no authority to tax, no national army, and no chief executive
- 15. chosen to preside at the Constitutional Convention; he later became the first president of the United States; he set precedent by stepping down after two terms and initiating a peaceful transition of power
- 16. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
- 18. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
- 19. “father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States; essential to the writing and ratification of the Constitution; he also wrote the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that were ratified as the Bill of Rights
- 20. the government is not all powerful; its powers are limited, and the acts of the government are those willed by the people constitution were written
- 21. in order for man to live in groups, he must give up some of his freedom to the government in exchange for protection of his natural rights
Down
- 2. French writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
- 3. first ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the civil rights and liberties of the people
- 5. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
- 7. group of people who feared the new government created by Constitution; gave too much power to the national government at the expense of individual rights
- 8. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political
- 9. explains the purposes of the Constitution, and defines the powers of the new government as originating from the people of the United States
- 10. considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
- 13. compromise between slave states and free states to count three-fifths of the slave population in a state when allocating how many representatives a state was entitled to in the House of Representatives
- 17. each branch of government is subject to a number of constitutional restraints, or checks, by the other branches so no single branch becomes too powerful