Across
- 2. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – often times tied to divine right of kings (authority from God)
- 4. explains the purposes of the Constitution, and defines the powers of the new government as originating from the people of the United States
- 5. power is held at the national level, with very little power being held in political subdivisions, such as provinces, states, counties, parishes, or tow
- 6. supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong central government with limited government and checks and balances
- 9. he government is not all powerful; its powers are limited, and the acts of the government are those willed by the people Constitution were written
- 12. chosen to preside at the Constitutional Convention; he later became the first president of the United States; he set precedent by stepping down after two terms and initiating a peaceful transition of power
- 13. first ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the civil rights and liberties of the people
- 14. each branch of government is subject to a number of constitutional restraints, or checks, by the other branches so no single branch becomes too powerful
- 15. compromise between slave states and free states to count three-fifths of the slave population in a state when allocating how many representatives a state was entitled to in the House of Representatives
Down
- 1. 3rd president of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence; he did not take part in writing the Constitution because he was in France at the time. He was a strong advocate for the addition of a Bill of Rights
- 2. considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
- 3. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
- 7. “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States; essential to the writing and ratification of the Constitution; he also wrote the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that were ratified as the Bill of Rights
- 8. type of democracy based on the protection of individual rights from the tyranny of the majority and on the consent of the governed to establish political authority
- 10. the citizens have political authority and are bound by social contract to obey laws with their rights guaranteed by a constitution; citizens willingly subordinate their private, selfish interests to the common good
- 11. french writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful