Across
- 3. A meeting of local party members to debate and select delegates
- 5. Model of federalism that involves spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal government system
- 9. The weakening of partisan party preferences leading to a rise in independents
- 10. The process for terminating debate in the senate
- 11. Powers of the government payed out in the Constitution
- 12. Multiple competing groups can check the asserted power by any one group
- 13. A person who is employed by and acts for an organized interest group or corporation to try to influence policy decisions and positions in the executive and legislative branches
- 15. The political ideology which most Americans tend to lean towards
- 18. The effect of candidates getting a boost because of the popularity of a candidate above them on the ballot
- 19. The Clause in the 1st Amendment that gives Congress to power to regulate interstate business activity
- 20. The drawing of legislative district boundaries to benefit a party, group, or incumbent
Down
- 1. The people represented by an elected representative
- 2. The type of federal grant limited to narrowly activities
- 4. The process by which we develop our political views and values
- 6. The clause of the First Amendment that prohibits the government from establishing/favoring a religion
- 7. Written defamation of another person
- 8. The sharing of powers between federal and state governments
- 14. The organization responsible for implementing, administering, and enforcing policies, laws, and regulations at the federal level
- 16. Presidential power to reject a bill passed by Congress
- 17. A Legislature divided in two houses