Across
- 3. The Constitutional principle that the different levels of government {national, state, and local} have different powers
- 4. Information or ideas designed to change people's opinion
- 7. To formally approve
- 10. The constitutional compromise in which their would be two house of Congress. The Senate would have two representatives from each state and a House of Representatives in which representation was determined by population
- 14. The clause in the Constitution that prevents punishment for doing an action that was legal at the time but later illegal
- 17. The Constitutional principle that the powers of government should be divided into three branches
- 18. The Constitutional principle that it is the government's job to rights of the citizens and that those rights can never be taken away
- 20. The written framework of the government of the United States and the contract between the people and the government
- 22. Document that served as the first government of the United States
- 23. The Constitutional principle that people exercise their power through electing representatives
- 24. The Constitutional principle that different branches of government can limit the power of the other branches
- 25. Those who were against the ratification of the new Constitution
Down
- 1. A person accused of a crime in one state and flees that state should be returned to that state for trial
- 2. Those who supported the ratification of the new Constitution
- 5. The Constitutional Principle that a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime
- 6. The clause in the Constitution that states a person cannot be punished for the crimes of his family
- 8. A 1787 law that guaranteed Republican Government and forbade slavery in the Northwest Territory
- 9. The first ten amendments to the Constitution
- 11. The constitutional compromise in which three-fifths of slaves are counted as population for the purpose of representation and taxes
- 12. The clause in the Constitution that states have to honor contracts, and court rulings from other states
- 13. The Constitutional principle that the power of government belongs to the people
- 15. A 1786-87 tax rebellion in Massachusetts that showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation
- 16. The legal principle that a person detained by the government must be physically brought before a judge and told why he is being detained
- 19. A 1785 law that set the rules of the surveying and selling land in the Northwest Territory
- 21. To make war against the United States or give aid and comfort to the enemy