Across
- 3. A group of states or governments that join together but keep most of their own power
- 6. Essays written to convince people to support and ratify the Constitution
- 11. The first plan of government for the United States It created a weak national government and gave most power to the states
- 12. To officially approve something
- 14. A system where power is shared between the national government and state governments
- 15. An uprising of Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays against taxes debt and farm foreclosures
Down
- 1. A leader at the Constitutional Convention who helped shape the Constitution and later became the fourth president
- 2. A system that lets each branch of government limit the power of the other branches
- 4. A government where people elect representatives to make decisions for them
- 5. Land northwest of the Ohio River that became part of the United States after the Revolutionary War
- 7. A list of rights and freedoms that protects people from too much government power
- 8. A Virginia document that protected individual rights and helped influence the Bill of Rights
- 9. Dividing government power among the legislative executive and judicial branches
- 10. People who opposed ratifying the Constitution because they feared a strong national government
- 13. The idea that government does not have unlimited power and must follow the law