Ideas Behind the Constitution

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West (7)
  2. 4. A large formal assembly (10)
  3. 5. The royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 (10)
  4. 7. Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government (12)
  5. 10. A middle way between two extremes (10)
  6. 11. The state of lacking unity (10)
  7. 12. English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience (5)

Down

  1. 1. 3rd President of the United States (9)
  2. 3. French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial (11)
  3. 5. 4th President of the United States (7)
  4. 6. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute ___ (12)
  5. 8. Strength or the ability to control things (plural) (6)
  6. 9. A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch (8)