the US constitution

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Across
  1. 2. call into question the integrity or validity of a practice
  2. 3. the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution, ratified, in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedom of speech, assembly, and worship
  3. 5. a formal meeting or series of meetings for a discussion between delegates especially those from a political party or labor union or from within a particular discipline
  4. 10. support for a republican system of government
  5. 12. a minor change or addition designed to improve a text, peace of legislation, etc
  6. 14. the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power
  7. 16. transacting or transportational products, services, or money across state borders
  8. 18. review by the U.S. supreme court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act
Down
  1. 1. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in seperate bodies
  2. 4. how the branches monitor each other
  3. 6. executes the laws
  4. 7. principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
  5. 8. the highest judicial court in a country or state
  6. 9. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
  7. 11. studies and interprets the laws
  8. 13. existing or occurring inside a particular country not foreign or internationally
  9. 15. makes and changes laws
  10. 17. the elected head of a republic