Across
- 3. Established a strong national government while protecting state’s rights
- 5. When power is shared among state and national governments
- 7. Minister who while preaching recruited soldiers to join the Revolution and fight the British
- 12. Helped write Federalist Papers and first Chief Justice of Supreme Court
- 14. Restricting the government’s power over the lives of its citizens
- 16. Frenchman who came to the US to study democracy and identified five key characteristics of American Democracy: liberty, egalitarianism (equality), individualism, populism, Laissez-faire
- 17. when the people elect their representatives
- 19. A signer of the Declaration of Independence, he served as a surgeon general to the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, widely considered the father of American Medicine.
- 20. a belief in a society of equals, with no nobility or monarchy
Down
- 1. devotion to rule of law and the spirit of freedom
- 2. the idea that the government receives its power from the people and can govern only with their consent
- 4. Power within the government is divided into the legislative, executive and judicial branches
- 6. Statement issued in 1776 explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain
- 8. President of New Jersey College (Princeton) and signer of the Declaration of Independence
- 9. Helped finance the Revolution with his own money and served as the only Catholic in the US Senate
- 10. The first ten amendments to the constitution that guarantee our personal freedoms, protections and equality.
- 11. Only Colonial governor (Connecticut) who sided with the colonists against the British
- 13. when the govt doesn’t direct individual activity
- 15. System where each branch of the government can regulate the actions of the other branches
- 18. President of the 2nd Continental Congress and signer of the Declaration of Independence