The Constitution

1. Numbered sections of a document. The unamended Constitution is divided into seven articles.
4. A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between central, or national, government and several regional governments.
7. A pact made by the president directly with the head of a foreign state; a binding international agreement with the force of law but which (unlike a treaty) does not require Senate consent.
9. A change in, or addition to, a constitution or law.
12. A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states.
13. Introduction.
14. The power of a court to determine the constitutionality of the governmental action.
15. Concept that holds the government and its officers are always subject to the law.
16. Change or addition that becomes part of the written language of the Constitution itself through one of four methods set forth in the Constitution.
17. Custom that the Senate will not approve a presidential appointment opposed by a majority party senator from the State in which the appointee would serve.
18. Basic principle of the government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law.

2. System of overlapping the power so of the legislative, executive and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others.
3. Contrary to constitutional provision and so illegal, null and void, of no force and effect.
5. Group of persons chosen in each State and the District of Colombia every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
6. Basic principle of American system of government, that the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are divided among three independent and coequal branches of the government.
8. President rejects any act of Congress.
10. The first ten amendments to the Constitution.
11. Presidential advisory body, traditionally made up of the heads of the executive departments and other officers.