Across
- 5. one house
- 8. no longer enact laws or raise taxes
- 10. how to vote for a leader
- 12. document written after the Revolutionary War
- 13. are ideas about people possessing natural rights to life, liberty, and property
- 14. favored by larger states
- 18. made by Thomas Paine, wrote on reasons on why to break away from England
- 20. two houses
- 21. limited the powers of the english monarch
- 22. tax on newspapers and legal and commercial documents in 1756
- 23. revolt against the British taxing
- 24. refers to a broad set of ideas about representative government that can be traced back to ancient Greece and Rome
Down
- 1. war fought between England and France for North American land
- 2. did want Bill of Rights
- 3. favored by small states
- 4. ten basic rights
- 6. result of Boston Tea Party, British closed port of Boston, enforced quartering of troops
- 7. “rough draft of the Constitution”
- 9. slaves to population count
- 11. wanted to divide power between 3 branches
- 15. suggested by Roger Sherman, House of Rep based on population, Senate equal
- 16. "all men are created equal," "inalienable rights," "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
- 17. did not want Bill of Rights
- 19. British soldiers accidentally open fire on colonist