Chapter 1: Ideas that shape American Politics
Across
- 4. The ability to pursue one's own desires without interference from others
- 7. "If you are talented and work hard you can achieve personal and financial success
- 10. An approach to political behavior that views individual as rational
- 12. The view that the US is uniquely characterized by a distinct set of ideas, such as equality, self-rule, and limited government
- 14. protected a constitutional right to privacy that limited state restrictions
- 15. 60% of income growth from 1979-2019
Down
- 1. freedom from constraints or the interference of others.
- 2. life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
- 3. a government in which citizens rule indirectly and make government decisions
- 5. "sacred principle" "The only sure guardian of the rights of man"
- 6. Laws that permit public to watch policymakers in action and access records of the proceedings
- 8. 5% of federal spending
- 9. number of times the word "rights" appears in the original constitution
- 11. The organizations, norms, and rules that structure government and public action
- 13. Idea that legitimate government flows from the people