American Politics

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Across
  1. 3. "Democracies have [always] been spectacles of turbulence and contention... as short in their lives as violent in their deaths."(political figure,17)
  2. 5. A theory where individuals aim to maximize their own self-interest (term,9)
  3. 6. This type of religion is the least popular religion, populated at 0.2%-0.5%(graph,36)
  4. 10. "If my drummers are again interrupted, I'll make sunlight shine through you. We deny and defy your authority(political figure,19)
  5. 11. When a person automatically receives their country's citizenship when they're born(term,40)
  6. 12. The Constitution was meant to settle a self-rule issue, but it has taken this many years and more to do so(fact,H2)
  7. 13. Meetings that have to be opened up to the public so that they can keep an eye on what their elected officials are up to(term,17)
  8. 14. Freedom is the absence of constraints(term,14)
Down
  1. 1. Oklahoma still honors the people who snuck in early and staked the best land during the Land Run of 1889(picture,26)
  2. 2. Number of times the word "democracy" appears in the Constitution(table,H1)
  3. 4. These people believe that members of society are responsible for each other(term,24)
  4. 7. The organizations, the norms, and rules that structure political action(term,8)
  5. 8. Where every citizen has the same political rights and opportunities(term,32)
  6. 9. This person drafted the Declaration of Independence(fact,H2)