Across
- 5. The branch of government that enforces the laws
- 7. President of the Constitutional Convention
- 10. The branch of government that makes laws
- 11. to the Union, Set up the three-step process for admitting new states
- 12. Person who officially represents their state
- 13. Against the constitution and favored states having more power that the central government
- 18. Often called the "Father of the Constitution"
- 19. Framer of the constitution from Connecticut who believed common people could not be an integral part of the government decision making
- 20. The plan that called for the legislative branch of the central government to be made up of two houses with the representatives for states based on their population
- 21. A document stating the rules infer which a government will operate
Down
- 1. The plan that called for a one house legislative branch with each state being equally represented
- 2. The United States' first written plan for government,
- 3. The branch of government that is a system of courts set up to interpret the laws
- 4. The idea that each branch of government had specific was to limit the power of the other branches
- 6. Decided how slaves would be counted for states' populations
- 8. Rebellion, The Massachusetts farmers' uprising that made it clear to many that the central government was too weak to protect states form popular unrest
- 9. Framer of the constitution from Pennsylvania who believed common people were the cornerstone of the democratic process
- 14. supported the constitution an favored a strong central, or national, government
- 15. Constitutional Convention, The meeting of delegates in which the articles of confederation were scrapes in favor of a new United States Constitution
- 16. A Change or addition to a document
- 17. The decision of government between the central government and the constituent units, as in the national government and the states