Ideas Behind the Constitution

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
f n d i n g f a h r
2.
a g n c r t a
The royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215
3.
o k e
English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience
4.
o e s q u i e
French political philosopher who advocated the separation of executive and legislative and judicial
5.
e p b l i
A form of government whose head of state is not a monarch
6.
d i c t o r h i
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute ___
7.
h b e s c o r p s
8.
s e p a t i n
The state of lacking unity
9.
p w e s
Strength or the ability to control things (plural)
10.
j e f f r s
3rd President of the United States
11.
m d i o n
4th President of the United States
12.
c s t t u i o n
Law determining the fundamental political principles of a government
13.
o m p r i s e
A middle way between two extremes
14.
c n e n i o n
A large formal assembly
15.
h e m a n
United States general who was commander of all Union troops in the West