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  • America
  • Articles
  • Citizen
  • Coin
  • Justice
  • Liberty
  • Ratify
  • Religion
  • Term
  • Vote

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Answer key: Constitution Crossword

1R2ATIFYM3CITIZEN4JRU5A6RTIC7LESECITLABI8COINECGREI9TT10VOTEYNRM

Across 1 RATIFY · 3 CITIZEN · 5 ARTICLES · 8 COIN · 10 VOTE

Down 2 AMERICA · 4 JUSTICE · 6 RELIGION · 7 LIBERTY · 9 TERM

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The Preamble and Big Ideas 21

  • America Last word of the opening sentence: "the United States of ___"
  • Articles The main parts of the Constitution, numbered I to VII
  • Blessings Good things; the opening sentence wants those of freedom made "secure"
  • Branches The three parts of the government, set up by Article I, Article II and Article III
  • Checks "___ and balances": the way each branch can limit the others, a phrase the text never uses
  • Defence "provide for the common ___", spelled with a c as it was in 1787
  • Federalism Sharing of power between the nation and the States; the text never uses the word
  • Framers Name for the delegates who wrote the document in 1787
  • Justice The second goal is to "establish ___"
  • Liberty Freedom; the last of the six goals is to keep its benefits "to ourselves"
  • Ordain Old word for decree, the first of two verbs in the last line of the opening sentence
  • People "We the ___": the first three words say whose document it is
  • Posterity Those who come after us: "to ourselves and our ___"
  • Preamble Opening sentence of the Constitution, which names six goals
  • Sections Numbered parts into which Article I, II, III and IV are each divided
  • Separation "___ of powers": lawmaking, enforcing and judging are given to three different bodies
  • Seven How many main parts the Constitution has
  • Tranquility The third goal: to "insure domestic ___"
  • Union What the States together make up; the opening sentence wants a "more perfect" one
  • Veto Latin for "I forbid": the everyday word for sending a proposed law back unsigned
  • Welfare Well-being: the fifth goal is to "promote the general ___"

Article I: Congress 39

  • Adjourn To close a meeting; neither chamber may do so "for more than three days" alone
  • Armies Article I, Section 8: "To raise and support ___"
  • Arrest Members are "privileged from ___" on their way to and from a sitting, with three exceptions
  • Attainder Section 9 bans laws "of ___", which punish a named person with no hearing before a judge
  • Authors Writers; Section 8 protects their "Writings" for "limited Times"
  • Bill Proposed law; it must pass both chambers before it can be signed
  • Borrow Article I, Section 8: "To ___ Money on the credit of the United States"
  • Census Count of the population made once a decade, which decides how many Representatives a State gets
  • Coin Article I, Section 8: "To ___ Money, regulate the Value thereof"
  • Commerce Trade, which may be regulated "with foreign Nations, and among the several States"
  • Congress Lawmaking body set up by Article I, made of two chambers
  • Debate Article I: members may not "be questioned in any other Place" for what they say in this
  • District Seat of the national government, a small area that belongs to no State
  • Elections Their "Times, Places and Manner" are set by each State's lawmakers
  • Expel To throw out a member, which Article I lets each chamber do to its own
  • Habeas corpus Latin name of the "Writ" that may be suspended only "in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion"
  • House "___ of Representatives": the chamber whose members serve two years
  • Impeachment Formal accusation of an official; the lower chamber has "the sole Power" of it
  • Inventors With writers, they get "the exclusive Right" to their work "for limited Times"
  • Journal Article I has each chamber keep one "of its Proceedings" and print it "from time to time"
  • Legislative Word for the lawmaking branch: "All ___ Powers herein granted" open Article I
  • Legislature A State's lawmaking body; each one picked its Senators until 1913
  • Majority More than half: the share of a chamber that must be present before it can act
  • Militia Part-time soldiers of the States, called out to "suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions"
  • Navy Article I, Section 8: "To provide and maintain a ___"
  • Necessary "___ and proper": words of the last clause of Section 8, often called the elastic clause
  • Nobility "No Title of ___ shall be granted by the United States"
  • Piracies Crimes "committed on the high Seas", named in Section 8 beside Felonies
  • Quorum Enough members on hand for a chamber to "do Business"
  • Revenue Money a nation takes in; proposals for raising it must start in the lower chamber
  • Science Article I, Section 8: "To promote the Progress of ___ and useful Arts"
  • Senate Chamber in which a small State has as many seats as a large one
  • Senator Member who must be at least thirty years old and serves six years
  • Speaker Officer the lower chamber chooses to lead it
  • Taxes First power listed in Article I, Section 8: "To lay and collect ___"
  • Treasury "No Money shall be drawn from the ___" unless a law allows it
  • Two thirds Share of each chamber needed to pass a proposed law over objections
  • War Article I, Section 8: the power "To declare ___"
  • Weights Article I, Section 8: "fix the Standard of ___ and Measures"

Articles II and III: President and Courts 32

  • Admiralty Law of the sea: Article III covers cases "of ___ and maritime" kinds
  • Advice "___ and Consent": what the upper chamber gives to appointments
  • Ambassadors Envoys between nations, whom Article II has appointed and received
  • Appellate Word for the authority to review a case already decided below
  • Behaviour "during good ___": how long those on the bench keep their seats, in 1787 spelling
  • Bribery Paying for favors: one of the named grounds for removing an official
  • Commander "___ in Chief of the Army" and of the fleet: a title Article II gives
  • Compensation Pay; that of the highest office may be neither raised nor cut during the four years
  • Convene To call together: on "extraordinary Occasions" both chambers may be summoned
  • Court Place where cases are heard; Article III sets up the highest one in the land
  • Electors Each State appoints as many as it has Senators and Representatives together
  • Equity Fairness: Article III covers "all Cases, in Law and ___"
  • Executive Law-enforcing; the kind of "Power" that Article II vests in one person
  • Fourteen Years a person must have lived in the United States to hold the highest office
  • Inferior Lower: Article III's word for the benches below the top one
  • Judges Officials who decide cases; Article III lets them serve as long as they behave well
  • Judicial Having to do with courts; the kind of "Power" that Article III deals with
  • Jurisdiction Authority to hear a case, which Article III divides into "original" and review kinds
  • Jury Article III says crimes, with one exception, are judged this way: "shall be by ___"
  • Misdemeanors "high Crimes and ___": the last of the named grounds for removing an official
  • Nominate To name someone for an office, the first step in filling the highest bench
  • Oath Solemn promise made before taking office
  • Opinion What may be required "in writing" from the head of each department
  • Pardons Acts of forgiveness for federal offenses, granted along with "Reprieves"
  • Preserve The promise of office ends: "___, protect and defend the Constitution"
  • President Office that Article II creates, filled for four years at a time
  • Recess Break in the upper chamber's meetings, when empty posts may be filled for a time
  • Supreme Highest: the word for the top bench and, in Article VI, for the "Law of the Land"
  • Term Length of time in an office: four years under Article II
  • Thirty five Youngest age, in years, at which a person may hold the highest office
  • Treason The only crime the text defines; it takes "two Witnesses to the same overt Act" to convict
  • Treaties Agreements with other nations, which Article II has the upper chamber approve

Articles IV to VII and the Signing 25

  • Admitted What "New States may be" under Article IV
  • Affirmation Solemn promise that the text allows in place of swearing
  • Bound Tied by duty, as every State's bench is to the Constitution under Article VI
  • Convention The 1787 meeting that wrote the document, which ends "done in ___"
  • Debts Sums owed; Article VI keeps those from before the Constitution "valid"
  • Faith "Full ___ and Credit": what each State owes the official acts of the others
  • Felony Serious crime, named in Article IV's rule on sending back the accused
  • Flee To run away, as from a criminal charge; Article IV has the person sent back
  • Guarantee Article IV: "The United States shall ___ to every State" its form of government
  • Nine Number of States whose approval was enough to put the Constitution into effect
  • Parchment Writing material on which the original was inscribed in 1787
  • Privileges With "Immunities": what citizens of each State are entitled to in every other
  • Propose To put forward a change to the Constitution, the first of Article V's two steps
  • Ratify To give formal approval, the last step in changing the Constitution
  • Records Official papers of one State, which Article IV has the others honor
  • Religious Article VI: "no ___ Test shall ever be required" for any office
  • Republican "a ___ Form of Government": what Article IV promises every State
  • September Month of the signing: "the Seventeenth Day of ___"
  • Signers The 39 delegates whose names end the document
  • Suffrage Voting power: Article V says no State may lose its share of it in the upper chamber without agreeing
  • Territory Land of the nation that is no State; Article IV allows "all needful Rules" for it
  • Three fourths Share of the States that must approve a change to the Constitution
  • Twelfth The closing line counts the year of the signing as this one "of the Independance of the United States"
  • Unanimous The closing line says the work was done by "the ___ Consent of the States present"
  • Violence Article IV: the nation guards each State against invasion and, on request, against this at home

The Amendments 39

  • Acting Twenty-fifth Amendment: word that goes before the title of a stand-in for the highest office
  • Amendments Formal changes to the Constitution; 27 have been approved
  • Arms Second Amendment: the right "to keep and bear ___"
  • Assemble First Amendment: the right "peaceably to ___"
  • Bail Eighth Amendment: "Excessive ___ shall not be required"
  • Citizen Member of a nation; the Fourteenth Amendment says who is one from birth
  • Counsel Sixth Amendment word for a lawyer, whose "Assistance" the accused may have
  • Cruel Eighth Amendment: "nor ___ and unusual punishments inflicted"
  • Dollars Seventh Amendment: lawsuits over more than "twenty ___" may go before jurors
  • Eighteen Twenty-sixth Amendment, 1971: age from which no one may be refused the ballot for being too young
  • Elected Seventeenth Amendment, 1913: how Senators are now chosen, by the voters of each State
  • Enforce Many later changes to the Constitution end by giving "power to ___ this article by appropriate legislation"
  • Equal Fourteenth Amendment: "the ___ protection of the laws"
  • Fines Eighth Amendment: "nor excessive ___ imposed"
  • Income Sixteenth Amendment, 1913: allows a tax on what a person earns
  • January Twentieth Amendment: month in which the four years of the highest office end, on the 20th day
  • Jeopardy Fifth Amendment: no one may be put in ___ "of life or limb" a second time for the same offense
  • Naturalized Fourteenth Amendment: "born or ___ in the United States", that is, made a member after birth
  • Noon Twentieth Amendment: hour of the 20th day at which the highest office changes hands
  • Petition First Amendment: to ask "the Government for a redress of grievances"
  • Poll Twenty-fourth Amendment, 1964: the "___ tax" that may no longer block a ballot in a federal election
  • Press First Amendment: printers and reporters are protected by the freedom "of the ___"
  • Process Fifth Amendment: "due ___ of law" must come before life or freedom is taken away
  • Property Fifth Amendment: it may not be "taken for public use" unless the owner is fairly paid
  • Race Fifteenth Amendment, 1870: the ballot may not be denied "on account of ___, color"
  • Religion First Amendment: no law "respecting an establishment of ___"
  • Repealed Twenty-first Amendment, 1933: what the Eighteenth "is hereby"
  • Reserved Tenth Amendment: what is not handed to the United States is "___ to the States respectively"
  • Rights What the changes of 1791 protect; the word ends their nickname
  • Searches Fourth Amendment: the "unreasonable" kind are banned, along with seizures
  • Slavery Thirteenth Amendment, 1865: "Neither ___ nor involuntary servitude" shall exist
  • Soldier Third Amendment: in peacetime none may be lodged in a home against the owner's wishes
  • Speech First Amendment: no law "abridging the freedom of ___"
  • Ten How many changes to the Constitution were approved together in 1791
  • Trial Sixth Amendment: the accused has the right to a "speedy and public" one
  • Twice Twenty-second Amendment, 1951: the most times a person may be chosen for the highest office
  • Vote The 15th, 19th, 24th and 26th changes to the Constitution each protect the right to do this
  • Witness Fifth Amendment: no one "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a ___ against himself"
  • Women Nineteenth Amendment, 1920: they could no longer be kept from the ballot box

How this list was compiled: Clues written for this site from the text of the United States Constitution and its 27 amendments. Every quotation, article reference and ratification year was checked against the National Archives transcriptions (archives.gov/founding-docs) in October 2026; quotations keep the spelling of the original. The count of 39 signers is the Archives' own. Unofficial classroom practice, not legal advice. Licence: own work

How it works

This printable Constitution crossword puzzle is a vocabulary crossword that opens on Easy Constitution Words. Five more sets follow the document in order: the Preamble, Congress, the President and the courts, the States, and the Amendments.

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Five sets in the order of the document

The Preamble and Big Ideas has Union, Posterity and Checks. Article I: Congress has Quorum, Census and Habeas corpus. Articles II and III: President and Courts has Electors, Oath and Treason. Articles IV to VII and the Signing has Ratify, Republican and Signers. The Amendments has Petition, Counsel and Eighteen.

Quoted as written in 1787

Quotations keep the original spelling, so the answers Defence and Behaviour are spelled as the parchment spells them. Veto, Federalism and Checks are in the bank although the text never uses those words.

  • For the September 17 anniversary of the signing, print The Preamble and Big Ideas: many of its clues quote the six goals.

Questions and answers

Are there Constitution crossword puzzles for 3rd grade?

Easy Constitution Words is the set for third grade: short answers such as Vote, Jury, Oath, Bill and Nine, with a word bank under the clues. The five other sets suit grades 5 to 8. These bands are our judgment, not a published standard.

Where do the Constitution crossword clues come from?

From the National Archives transcriptions of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and Amendments 11 to 27. Every quotation was checked against them, and the years in the Amendment clues are the ratification years the Archives gives.

Does the printable Constitution crossword puzzle come with an answer key?

Yes. The key prints after the puzzle, its clues and the word bank: the same grid filled in, with each answer listed by its number, on Letter or A4.

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