Creating the Constitution

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Across
  1. 2. this plan sought two houses of congress and was cheered by big states
  2. 6. in the Three-Fifths Compromise it was agreed that enslaved people would count as this percentage of a person
  3. 10. this was the first attempt at creating a constitution in the United States
  4. 13. a system used in the United States to choose the President and Vice President
  5. 15. this rebellion led to the overhaul of the constitution
  6. 16. thinkers like John Locke were from this era
  7. 17. Edmund Randolph suggested that the executive branch should have this many leaders
  8. 19. a written frame of government
  9. 20. amount of delegates who attended and did not sign the Constitution
Down
  1. 1. angry with a brother, sister, or rival nation? You're having one of these.
  2. 3. often known as the father of the constitution
  3. 4. a delegate from this state would create the Great Compromise
  4. 5. the branch that interprets laws
  5. 7. the oldest delegate at the constitutional convention
  6. 8. this plan sought one single house and every state would get one vote
  7. 9. the branch that makes laws
  8. 11. modern-day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin
  9. 12. the constitutional ________ occurred in 1787 in Philadelphia
  10. 14. the branch that carries out laws
  11. 18. the number of states needed to ratify the Constitution