Across
- 2. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
- 3. a person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority
- 5. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
- 8. Representative democracy is a form of democracy in which people vote for representatives who then vote on policy initiatives
- 11. a cruel and oppressive ruler the tyrant was deposed by popular demonstrations
- 14. establish a federal system of government under which the people would be governed by both the state and national governments
- 16. someone who is opposed to a system of government in which power is divided between a single central government and several regional ones
- 18. right to govern themselves
- 19. creates laws
- 20. A convention of delegates from all the states except Rhode Island met in Philadelphia Pennsylvania in May of 1787
- 21. the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship.
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- 1. The Plan called for each state to have one vote in Congress instead of the number of votes being based on population
- 4. sign or give formal consent to (a treaty, contract, or agreement), making it officially valid
- 6. The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber.
- 7. counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups
- 9. the upper chamber in a bicameral legislature
- 10. of confederation
- 12. Judge laws
- 13. loose friendship of states
- 15. a minor change or addition designed to improve a text, piece of legislation, etc
- 17. Enforces laws