Across
- 2. The idea that governments should be based on the consent of the people
- 6. Agreement made by the Consitutional Convention in which states would have equal representation in one house of the legislature and representation based on population in the other house
- 8. Power given to separate branches of government to keep any one from getting too much power
- 9. The set of laws that established the first government of the United States
- 11. A loose alliance of states
- 13. A government in which the people elect representatives to govern
- 15. Agreement that allowed states to count three-fifths of their slaves as part of the population
- 16. The divison of power bewteen the federal and state governments
Down
- 1. The branch of government that enforces the laws
- 3. The branch of government that makes laws
- 4. Law that organized the Northwest Territories
- 5. A group selected to elect the president,in which each state's number of electors is equal to the number of its senators and representatives in Congress
- 7. A law that set up a plan for surveying land west of the Appalachin Mountains
- 10. Anti-tax protest by farmers
- 12. Thr branch of government that interprets the laws and the Constitution
- 14. One of fhe leaders of the Consitutional Convention