Across
- 5. The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
- 7. The name for the reason why there are three branches of the government.
- 9. What people call the Constitution because it is amendable; a ______ document.
- 12. The type of government that runs the U.S.
- 13. The amendment that says that if right is not listed in the Bill of Rights, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have it.
- 14. The introduction of the Constitution.
- 16. The amendment that gives you freedom of religion as well as freedom of speech and rights to peaceably assemble.
- 17. The amount of justices in the Supreme Court.
- 19. The president of the Constitutional Convention.
- 20. What you can do to the Constitution to fix things; another word for change.
- 21. The number of delegates that attended the Constitutional Convention.
- 22. What the president can do if he doesn’t agree with a law.
- 24. The rebellion in 1785 against the government; _______ Rebellion.
Down
- 1. The “middle ground” proposal to even out the two plans proposed in the Constitutional Convention.
- 2. The part of the Constitution that lays out key processes of the U.S. government.
- 3. The part of the Constitution that holds the amendments.
- 4. The number of years that stopped Congress from making laws on slavery.
- 5. The government that the Articles of Confederation formed was too weak to collect _____ and enforce ____.
- 6. Our First Constitution was the ________ of ____________.
- 8. The document that was drafted that could allow the government to enforce laws and collect taxes.
- 10. What Congress calls the removal of a president from office.
- 11. The number of seats in the House of Representatives.
- 15. A system where the states share power with a national government.
- 18. The branch of government that includes the president.
- 23. The second compromise in the Constitutional Convention that regarded how slaves affected a state’s population.
