Chapter 1: Ideas that shape American Politics

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Across
  1. 4. The ability to pursue one's own desires without interference from others
  2. 7. "If you are talented and work hard you can achieve personal and financial success
  3. 10. An approach to political behavior that views individual as rational
  4. 12. The view that the US is uniquely characterized by a distinct set of ideas, such as equality, self-rule, and limited government
  5. 14. protected a constitutional right to privacy that limited state restrictions
  6. 15. 60% of income growth from 1979-2019
Down
  1. 1. freedom from constraints or the interference of others.
  2. 2. life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
  3. 3. a government in which citizens rule indirectly and make government decisions
  4. 5. "sacred principle" "The only sure guardian of the rights of man"
  5. 6. Laws that permit public to watch policymakers in action and access records of the proceedings
  6. 8. 5% of federal spending
  7. 9. number of times the word "rights" appears in the original constitution
  8. 11. The organizations, norms, and rules that structure government and public action
  9. 13. Idea that legitimate government flows from the people