Across
- 1. wrote the series of articles promoting the ratification of the Constitution
- 4. gives all key powers to national or centrap government
- 6. government controls the economy
- 12. Benjamin Franklin's plan for uniting the colonies
- 13. supreme and absolute power within it's territorial boundaries
- 15. government ruled under the authority of one person
- 16. Britain taxed legal documents, pamphlets, and newspapers
- 21. colonists dumped tea into the Boston harbor
- 23. checks and balances to limit power
- 24. agreement prohibiting trade
- 25. the power of a monarch, or government, is limited, not absolute
Down
- 2. people give power to a government to protect their natural rights
- 3. also called the coercive act, these were Britain's retaliation for the tea party
- 5. government keeps its hands off the economy
- 7. pilgrims plan for self government
- 8. government ruled by a small group of people
- 9. government owns basic means of production
- 10. the people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government
- 11. enlightenment thinker, proposed natural rights and social contract theory
- 14. author of the Constitution
- 17. economy that has freedom of choice
- 18. loose union of independent states
- 19. divides power between national and state governments
- 20. declaration of Independence was approved
- 22. plan or rules for a government