A More Perfect Union

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