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