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4. The legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch
6. The lawmaking branch of the government
7. It counted enslaved people as only 3/5s of a person whenever used to count the population
9. A Virginia planter who was very active in the movement for change
15. A powerful speaker and writer who wrote the final draft of the constitution
16. A document that was a model for the American bill of rights
18. freeing of individual enslaved people
19. An English philosopher who believed that all people have natural rights including the rights to life, liberty, and property
20. the means to improve society
21. A legislature divided into two parts
22. People who were opposed to the idea of a new Constitution
24. Government by the consent of the governed
26. A Philadelphia merchant who pledged large sums of money towards war efforts
27. America's first constitution that later turned out to be heavily flawed

1. He was a former Continental Army captain who led over 1,000 angry farmers to the federal arsenal in Massachusetts
2. A group of people who helped the anti-slavery society in Pennsylvania
3. A French writer who declared the powers of government should be separated and balanced with each other
5. The sharing of power between the federal and state governments. Supporters of the new constitution
8. Lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
10. A movement in the 1700's that promoted knowledge, reason, and science
11. A period when economic activity slowed and unemployment increased
12. A plan that would have two legislative houses that would both be proportional or have a number of representatives according to the size of the state
13. The compromise that allowed the number of seats to change according to the size of the state in the lower house but in the upper house had two members no matter what
14. the first state admitted to the Union from the Northwest Territory
17. The ordinance that created the Northwest Territory
23. It helped make sure people still had freedoms after the Constitution was set in place
25. A system that made sure no branch of government would overrule the other