Across
- 2. document announcing independence from Britain
- 4. division of government into three branches
- 7. president rejects a bill
- 8. system preventing one branch from becoming too powerful
- 9. first ten amendments
- 10. lower chamber of Congress
- 11. conflict between Union and Confederacy
- 13. national legislative branch
- 14. highest court in the United States
- 15. proclamation freeing enslaved people in Confederate states
Down
- 1. war for American independence
- 3. upper chamber of Congress
- 5. power shared between national and state governments
- 6. supreme law of the United States
- 12. change to the Constitution