Constitutional Convention

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Across
  1. 1. Supported the new constitution and a strong central government
  2. 3. Lower house of Congress based on Virginia Plan
  3. 9. President of the Constitutional Convention
  4. 10. Upper house of Congress based on New Jersey Plan
  5. 14. Beloved celebrity delegate from Pennsylvania
  6. 15. Father of the Constitution; organized the constitutional convention
  7. 17. Written by Hamilton, Jay, and Madison
Down
  1. 2. Distrusted the new constitution; wanted strong states
  2. 4. The Three-Fifths Compromise decided how ______ should be counted towards the population.
  3. 5. Plan in which states in Congress would share equal power despite population
  4. 6. Solution to the states' power controversy in which a two-house legislature would preside
  5. 7. Proposed the Connecticut Compromise and Three-Fifths Compromise
  6. 8. Replaced the weak Articles of Confederation
  7. 11. Refused to sign constitution, because it lacked a Bill of Rights
  8. 12. Plan in which states in Congress had various levels of power based on population
  9. 13. List of individual liberties added to the constitution
  10. 16. Means two houses of Congress