Across
- 3. Government branch that enforces the law
- 4. First President of the United States
- 5. Warned the Convention that God must be included in the planning of the new Constitution
- 8. First Secretary of the State and third President of the US
- 11. Group that wanted states to have more power in governing the nation
- 14. Compromise that only counted some of the slaves when counting population for representation
- 17. Treaty that settled a border dispute between Spain and the US
- 20. Political party that supported Thomas Jefferson
- 22. Political party that wanted a stronger central government
- 23. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who established the authority to rule on the constitutionality of a law
- 24. First Secretary of the Treasury
- 25. America's first plan for government
Down
- 1. Government branch that makes the laws
- 2. Group of papers written in support of the new constitution
- 6. First Supreme Court Chief Justice
- 7. Meeting of 55 delegates who created a new Constitution
- 9. One of the most important members of the delegation who contributed to forming the new Constitution
- 10. Led a group of farmers in an uprising in 1787
- 12. Plan for bicameral legislature that became the basis for our constitution
- 13. Government branch that interprets the laws
- 15. Location of the Constitutional Convention
- 16. Second president and member of the Federalist Party
- 18. First ten amendments to the Constitution
- 19. Name for the government established by the new constitution
- 21. Another name of the Connecticut Compromise
