A More Perfect Union

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Across
  1. 1. voluntary association of independent states
  2. 3. movement of the 1700s that promoted knowledge, reason, and science
  3. 6. Father of the Constitution
  4. 9. first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory
  5. 10. parts
  6. 12. carries out nation's laws
  7. 13. A Connecticut man who suggested the Great Compromise
  8. 14. Massachusetts delegate who refused to sign the Constitution
  9. 16. people that opposed ratification
  10. 17. government by consent of the governed
  11. 22. approved
  12. 23. a period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased
  13. 24. supporters of the new Constitution
  14. 26. limits the branches power to keep any branch from gaining too much power
  15. 27. French author of The Spirit of Laws
Down
  1. 2. former Continental Army captain that led the Shays Rebellion
  2. 4. court system
  3. 5. the freeing of enslaved people
  4. 7. provided a democratic model for national expansion
  5. 8. wrote the final draft of the Constitution
  6. 11. lawmaking branch
  7. 15. Massachusetts opponent of the Constitution
  8. 18. counted each enslaved person as three-fifths of a free person
  9. 19. sharing power between the federal and state govenments
  10. 20. corresponding
  11. 21. divided into two parts, or houses
  12. 25. permission to put goods ashore for transfer to ocean going ships