Across
- 2. person elected to act and speak for others
- 9. people had to provide for their own needs
- 12. power to make laws
- 13. good for the community as a whole
- 15. citizens and leaders willing to set aside personal interests for the greater good
- 17. legal framework for government
- 18. being under the rule of a monarch
- 20. form of government where only one person is the head of state
- 21. the people and institutions with authority to make and enforce laws and manage disputes about laws
- 23. government of unlimited power
- 25. powers of different government branches are balanced
- 26. a proposed law
- 27. power to carry out and enforce laws
Down
- 1. a state in which government and laws do not exist at all
- 3. everyone promises to give up what they want to do
- 4. to protect the natural rights that an individual cannot
- 5. limits on the powers of the person or group running the government
- 6. power to interpret laws
- 7. life, liberty, and property. Obtained these rights from God
- 8. people chose leaders to make and administer laws for their country
- 10. some of the power is given to each branch
- 11. political leaders of the colonies
- 14. the people themselves control the government
- 15. roman farmer and dictator
- 16. to approve of something or allow it to take place
- 19. wealthy upperclassmen
- 22. citizens have the right to choose who governs
- 24. power is with the people who elect representatives