GOVERNMENT CROSSWORD PUZZLE

4. Committees that may receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, labor unions and other PACs for the purpose of financing independent expenditures.
6. An official count or survey of a population, typically recording various details of individuals.
10. The process of dividing seats for the House among the 50 states following the decennial census.
11. A strategy by which organized interests seek to influence the passage of legislation by exerting direct pressure on members of the legislature or bureaucracy.
13. A body of people representing the states of the US, who formally cast votes for the election of the president and vice president.
14. A legislative act referred for final approval to a popular vote by electorate.
15. Direct group involvement in the electoral process.
16. Mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former Confederate States of America.
17. A small organized dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics.
18. A published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation; a written defamation.

1. A condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.
2. A meeting of local party members to choose party officials or candidates for public office and to decide the platform.
3. A person sent or authorized to represent others, in particular an elected representative sent to a conference.
4. Contributions made outside the limits and prohibitions of federal law.
5. All the people in a country or area who are entitled to vote in an election.
7. The right to vote in political elections.
8. Granted women the right to vote.
9. The power to control appointments to office or the right to privileges.
12. A person who advocates or supports a system of government in which several states unite under a central authority.