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6. secretary of ___ is the head of the Department of Defense and the president's key adviser of military policy and, as such, a key foreign policy actor
7. a count of the population issued by the government for demographic changes
8. states holding primaries early to capitalize on media attention
10. A system of selecting policymakers and of organizing government so that policy represents and responds to the public's preferences.
12. party's official endorsement of a candidate for office
14. A statement of legal reasoning behind a judicial decision.
15. Right to a speedy and public trial, with help of a lawyer, and the right to confront witnesses in criminal cases.
16. designed to achieve policy change
17. a type of tax where the govt takes greater share of income from the rich than the poor
18. A constitutional amendment giving full rights of citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, except for American Indians.

1. The institutions that make authoritative decisions for any given society
2. legal right to vote in US
3. An official SCOTUS decision "the way similar cases were handled in the past"
4. A fund created by Congress in 1980 to clean up hazardous waste sites.
5. supporters of the US Constitution at the time the states were contemplating its adoption
7. the ___ war was the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union, which often brought them to the brink of war and which spanned the period from the end of WWII until the collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist regimes in 1989 and the years following
8. groups such as parties or interest groups, which according to James Madison arose from the unequal distribution of property or wealth had the potential to cause instability in government
9. rise in price of goods and services
11. A federal system of health insurance for those requiring financial assistance.
13. constitutional amendment that abolished slavery