American Government Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. Supported ratification of new Constitution
  2. 8. the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.
  3. 10. Governmental decisions are shared by states and central
  4. 12. prohibits states from denying the right to vote based on race.
  5. 14. a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch.
  6. 15. Different states have different laws about different things.
  7. 18. State and local governments hold most power
  8. 19. Congress has the power "to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or any Department or Officer thereof"
  9. 20. prohibits states from discriminating against non-state residents.
  10. 21. counterbalancing influences by which an organization or system is regulated, typically those ensuring that political power is not concentrated in the hands of individuals or groups.
  11. 22. an inherent weakness of majority rule in which the majority of an electorate can and does place its own interests above, and at the expense of those in the minority.
  12. 26. the original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
  13. 27. Americans threw tea into the harbor! 1773.
  14. 28. First 10 amendments to the Constitution
  15. 29. set up equal protection of the law
  16. 30. Prohibits Slavery
Down
  1. 1. Separation/sharing of power between federal and state governments
  2. 2. “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
  3. 3. “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing [sic] in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding."
  4. 4. the action of signing or giving formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
  5. 5. legal decisions from one state are to be honored in other states.
  6. 7. Central government holds most power
  7. 9. The founding fathers established it in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
  8. 11. July 4, 1776
  9. 13. a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution.
  10. 16. Rule by the people
  11. 17. Every branch of government has its own responsibilities.
  12. 23. control of a political situation by those outside the conventional or lawful realm, typically involving violence and intimidation.
  13. 24. Opposed ratification of new Constitution
  14. 25. an authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders with either no party or a weak party, little mass mobilization, and limited political pluralism.