8th Grade Social Studies Constitution

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Across
  1. 2. these people opposed ratification of the Constitution because they feared a strong national government
  2. 3. citizens have the right to elect representatives to carry out their will.
  3. 5. every citizen is guaranteed rights such as freedom of speech, religion, and trial by jury.
  4. 7. branch that makes the laws
  5. 9. power is divided among three branches of government
  6. 11. the meeting in Philadelphia in 1787, where 55 delegates met to revise the Articles of Confederation.
  7. 12. the first ten amendments
  8. 14. each branch can regulate the power of the other two branches.
  9. 15. this branch interprets the Constitution
  10. 17. compromise that settled the issue of counting slaves toward representation between northern and southern states.
Down
  1. 1. solved the disagreement between small and large states by allowing representation in one house to be determine by population and in the other it would be equal
  2. 4. government only has the powers given to it by the Constitution.
  3. 6. our first form of national government
  4. 8. branch that enforces the law
  5. 10. people have the right to alter or abolish their government.
  6. 13. power is divided among the federal (national) government and state governments.
  7. 16. they supported the ratification of the Constitution because it created a strong national government.