Across
- 1. bringing criminal charges against a government official
- 5. in charge of making laws
- 8. The father of the Constitution
- 10. two chambers of government
- 12. gives each branch of government power so one doesn't have to much of it
- 14. how our state elects a new president
- 15. the person who implements law and is elected by citizens
- 18. the president's helper
- 23. The supreme law of the United States of America
- 25. Someone who supports the federal government
- 26. This branch is in charge of enforcing the laws
- 27. The plan that gave bigger states more power
Down
- 2. government based on the consent of its people
- 3. making sure US citizens have equal rights under the law
- 4. The general of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
- 6. make and pass federal laws and one of the two chambers of the government
- 7. Every 5 slaves counted as 3 people
- 9. a change to an official document to revise it or make it better
- 11. America's first constitution
- 13. The legislative, executive, and judicial are all separate branches
- 15. the document that set the stage for the constitution
- 16. protects the rights of the small states by giving every state 1 vote each
- 17. puts the American citizen's rights to the government on paper
- 19. a national legislative body
- 20. established the United States legislature as a bicameral government
- 21. is disagreese who doesn't agree that the government should be split in three and have equal power
- 22. Branch is a Group of people who come together and figure out what our laws mean and deal with the people who break them
- 24. the upper chamber in the bicameral legislature