Across
- 2. explains the purposes of the Constitution, and defines the powers of the new government as originating from the people of the United States
- 4. 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
- 5. compromise reached in writing the Constitution to satisfy both small and large states by having one house of Congress with an equal number of representatives for each state and the other house’s membership determined by a state’s population
- 6. power is held at the national level, with very little power being held in political subdivisions, such as provinces, states, counties, parishes, or tow
- 9. government is defined by law and serves the people; the law is above everyone and it applies to everyone, whether ruler or the ruled
- 14. French writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
- 16. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
- 17. 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
- 18. considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
- 19. belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority
- 20. first ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the
- 21. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
Down
- 1. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
- 3. the government is not all powerful; its powers are limited, and the acts of the government are those willed by the people Constitution were written
- 7. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – often times tied to divine right of kings (authority from God)
- 8. Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to pass all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out the other powers listed in Article I
- 10. English political philosopher whose Social Contract Theory believed that in order to live together, individuals in a society give up their natural rights to a higher authority for the sake of protection
- 11. group of people who feared the new government created by Constitution; gave too much power to the national government at the expense of individual rights
- 12. 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
- 13. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
- 15. “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
- 17. rights and liberties of the people