Constitutional Cross Word Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. System where each branch of government can limit the power of the others
  2. 4. System where power is shared between the national and state governments
  3. 5. The first ten amendments that protect individual freedoms
  4. 10. Collection of essays written to support and explain the Constitution
  5. 11. People who wrote the U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional Convention
  6. 13. Agreement that created a two-house Congress with equal and population representation
  7. 15. Leader of the Constitutional Convention and the first President of the United States
  8. 16. Changes or additions made to the Constitution
  9. 18. Compromise Agreement that counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxes
  10. 19. The idea that government power comes from the people
Down
  1. 1. The last state to ratify the U.S. Constitution
  2. 2. Group that supported the Constitution and wanted it ratified
  3. 6. Known as the “Father of the Constitution” because he helped write and plan much of it
  4. 7. Plan that favored small states by giving each state equal representation
  5. 8. Group that opposed the Constitution and feared a strong national government
  6. 9. Anti-Federalist leader who strongly spoke against the Constitution
  7. 12. Dividing government power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches
  8. 14. Delegate from Connecticut who helped create the Great Compromise
  9. 17. Plan at the convention that favored large states by giving them more representation