Constitutional cross word

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Across
  1. 4. The last state to ratify the Constitution
  2. 5. First ten amendments protecting individual freedoms
  3. 9. Idea that government gets its power from the people
  4. 10. System where each branch limits the power of the others
  5. 15. Plan that favored small states with equal representation
  6. 16. Delegate who helped create the Great Compromise
  7. 18. Agreement that created a two-house Congress (House and Senate)
  8. 19. Changes added to the Constitution
Down
  1. 1. Dividing government into three branches
  2. 2. Group that supported ratifying the Constitution
  3. 3. Plan that favored large states with representation based on population
  4. 6. Compromise that counted enslaved people as three-fifths for representation and taxes
  5. 7. People who wrote the U.S. Constitution
  6. 8. System where power is shared between national and state governments
  7. 11. Group that opposed the Constitution without a bill of rights
  8. 12. Leader of the Constitutional Convention and first U.S. president
  9. 13. Essays written to support ratification of the Constitution
  10. 14. Anti-Federalist leader who spoke against a strong national government
  11. 17. Known as the “Father of the Constitution”