Government Crossword

2. Procedure for submitting to popular vote the removal of officials from office before the end of their term.
4. Candidate or party with the most votes cast in an election, not necessarily more than half.
8. The principle of a two-house legislature.
10. Government by religious leaders, who claim divine guidance.
12. Formal accusation by the lower house of legislature against a public official, the first step in removal from office.
14. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one states to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
17. Procedure for submitting to popular vote measures passed by the legislature or proposed amendments to a state constitution.
18. People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.
19. Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments, called states in the United States. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.
20. Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states, by compact, create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.

1. People who favor state or local action rather than national action.
3. An economic system characterized by private property, competitive markets, economic incentives, and limited government involvement in the production, distribution, and pricing of goods and services.
5. Presidential refusal to allow an agency to spend funds that Congress authorized and appropriated.
6. Supporters of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government.
7. The idea that the rights of the nation are supreme over the rights of the individuals who make up the nation.
9. Procedure whereby a certain number of voters may, by petition, propose a law or constitutional amendment and have it submitted to the voters.
11. The set of arrangements, including checks and balances, federalism, separation of powers, rule of law, due process, and a bill of rights, that requires our leaders to listen, think, bargain, and explain before they act or make laws. We then hold them politically and legally accountable for how they exercise their powers.
13. The right of a federal law or a regulation to preclude enforcement of a state or local law or regulation.
15. Opponents of ratification of the Constitution and of a strong central government, generally.
16. Government by the people, both directly or indirectly, with free and frequent elections.