Across
- 4. candidates with the most votes win
- 5. candidates receive more than half the votes to win
- 6. is a formal set of main ideas and goals that a political party stands for
- 9. is the number of votes equals to the number of seats earned for the party
- 10. system has only one political party that is allowed to exist or hold power
- 11. is writing and passing bills, investigating issue, are declaring war
- 12. enforcing and carrying out the laws made by congress
- 14. prohibits racial discrimination in voting
Down
- 1. is drawing boundaries of voting districts in a way that gives one political party an unfair advantage
- 2. system has more than two strong parties compete for power
- 3. rules and regulations that control how elections run in a country, state or local
- 7. is a group of people chosen by each state who formally elects the President
- 8. is to interpret the laws and make sure they are applied fairly
- 9. is what each individual idea or policy area in the platform
- 13. system has two major political parties that dominate in the government