Our Puzzling Government

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Across
  1. 2. not sanctioned by law
  2. 4. Benjamin Franklin had proposed an innovative plan for uniting the colonies
  3. 6. the first basic system of laws in the English colonies
  4. 8. political disorder
  5. 9. imposed the first direct tax onthe colonists
  6. 13. a government in which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government
  7. 14. single-chamber
  8. 15. a representative assembly with the power to enact laws
  9. 16. trade among the states
  10. 18. the money a government collects from taxes or other sources
  11. 20. declaring to the Second Virginia Convention
  12. 22. approved
  13. 24. was the author of the basic plan of government that the Convention eventually adopted
  14. 25. in which the power of the monarch, or government, was limited, not absolute
Down
  1. 1. believed that people should contract among themselves to from governments to protect their natural rights
  2. 3. stands as the first example of many colonial plans for self-government
  3. 5. laws
  4. 7. severely limiting the king’s power
  5. 10. In retaliation Parliament passed the Coercive Acts which this is also known as
  6. 11. yeild
  7. 12. Colonial legislatures had the power to pass laws, and colonial courts heard cases
  8. 17. Rights, a document that would later be very important to the American colonies
  9. 19. established the principle that the territories were to be developed for statehood on an equal basis with the older states
  10. 21. an agreement prohibiting trade, on Britain, and agreed not to use British goods
  11. 23. provided the basis for the principle of limited government