Across
- 3. basic rights and freedoms that protect you from government overreach
- 5. a system of government where power is shared between a national government and state governments
- 7. advocated for the bill of rights to protect individual liberties from the newly formed federal government
- 8. basic rights and freedoms that people have which are considered to be protected from undue governmental interference
- 9. the legal idea that the bill of rights originally meant to limit only the federal government also applies to state governments
- 11. official changes or additions to a document like the Constitution
Down
- 1. initially opposed a bill of rights arguing that the Constitution ready protected individual liberties
- 2. rights guaranteed to citizens by a country’s constitution
- 4. the primary author of the bill of rights
- 6. the government must follow fair procedures before taking away someone’s life liberty or property
- 10. the formal approval of something usually a treaty contract or amendment making it officially valid