Across
- 5. explains the purposes of the Constitution, and defines the powers of the new government as originating from the people of the United States
- 7. French writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
- 10. 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
- 11. 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
- 14. belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority
- 16. first plan of government adopted in the United States after the revolution; it was a loose association of states with no authority to tax, no national army, and no chief executive
- 20. rights and liberties of the people
- 22. the people are the only source of power for any and all government actions; government can only govern with the consent of the governed
- 23. “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
Down
- 1. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
- 2. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
- 3. 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
- 4. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – often times tied to divine right of kings (authority from God)
- 6. 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
- 8. considered intelligent and decisive, he was a leading supporter of the Constitution and helped write the Federalist Papers
- 9. and checks and balances
- 12. 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
- 13. of a few.
- 15. 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
- 17. a representative democracy in which a small group of leaders, elected by the citizens, represents the concerns of the people; the interests of the majority take precedence over the
- 18. 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
- 19. supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong central government with limited
- 21. first ten amendments to the Constitution, added by the first Congress in 1791; protects the