Across
- 2. French writer who introduced the idea of separation of powers and checks and balances to prevent one part of government from becoming too powerful
- 4. first ten amendments to the Constitution, protects the civil rights and liberties of the people
- 5. believed in natural rights- life, liberty and property; strongest influence on Thomas Jefferson, who wrote natural rights into the Declaration of Independence
- 7. powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
- 10. 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
- 12. 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
- 13. division of the powers in our government among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches; no one branch has too much power
Down
- 1. 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
- 3. king/queen controls all aspect of life: social, economic, and political – often times tied to divine right of kings (authority from God)
- 6. “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president of the United States
- 8. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
- 9. explains the purposes of the Constitution
- 11. belief that monarchs were chosen by God; gave the monarch unlimited authority