Monster Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle: Key Terms (A)

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Across
  1. 2. Meeting of party members used to choose candidates
  2. 3. Senate tactic of extended debate used to delay or block a bill
  3. 5. Federal Reserve control of interest rates and money supply
  4. 10. Procedure requiring 60 Senate votes to end debate
  5. 14. Formal directive issued by the president
  6. 19. Spending the federal government is legally required to make
  7. 20. Redrawing congressional district boundaries
  8. 23. Directly attempting to influence government officials
  9. 24. Government use of taxes and spending to influence the economy
  10. 27. Parties moving farther apart ideologically
  11. 28. Congressional election held in non-presidential years
  12. 29. Practice of exchanging votes in Congress
  13. 30. Power of courts to declare laws unconstitutional
Down
  1. 1. Organization that can spend unlimited money on campaigns
  2. 4. Shared political beliefs and values of a society
  3. 6. Transfer of power from the national government to the states
  4. 7. Current officeholder running for reelection
  5. 8. Federal funds given to states with few restrictions
  6. 9. Government programs guaranteeing benefits to eligible individuals
  7. 11. System in which power is shared between national and state governments
  8. 12. Congressional review of executive agencies
  9. 13. Process of taking a dispute to court
  10. 15. Political organization that raises and donates money to campaigns
  11. 16. Assistance provided to constituents dealing with government agencies
  12. 17. Citizen efforts to influence government policy
  13. 18. Applying Bill of Rights protections to the states
  14. 21. Drawing district boundaries to benefit a political party
  15. 22. Decline in voter loyalty to political parties
  16. 25. Theory that many groups compete to influence government
  17. 26. The right to vote