Across
- 2. powers saved for the states in our system of federalism, guaranteed in the 9th Amendment to the Constitution
- 4. leading supporter of US constitution
- 5. father of the constitution
- 9. king/queen controls all aspect of life
- 12. power is held at the national level
- 15. Democracy type of democracy based on the protection of individual rights
- 17. division of the powers in our government among the legislative
- 18. the citizens have political authority and are bound by social contract to obey laws with their rights
- 19. the distribution of power between the national government and the states within a union
- 20. in order for man to live in groups, he must give up some of his freedom to the government in exchange for protection of his natural rights
Down
- 1. first plan of government adopted in the United States after the revolution
- 3. believed in natural rights
- 6. first ten amendments to the
- 7. supporters of the new Constitution who believed in a strong government
- 8. 1st president
- 10. 3rd president of the US and author of the Declaration of Independence
- 11. government attempts to control all facets of the lives of its citizens
- 13. a representative democracy in which a small group of leader
- 14. explains the purposes of the Constitution
- 16. government is defined by law and serves the people