Across
- 1. Provides each branch of the government the power to check the other branches to prevent any other branch from becoming too powerful and keep the branches balanced.
- 3. A system of rules created and enforced to regulate behavior
- 9. When someone or a group of people exercises self-government
- 10. The governing body of a community, state, or nation.
- 12. A branch of the government that adjudicates legal disputes/disagreements and applies the law in legal cases
- 15. A founding father of the Declaration of Independence
Down
- 2. The first 10 amendments of the Constitution
- 4. A change or addition to the Constitution
- 5. The ability to do something
- 6. The branch of the government that is responsible for enforcing laws of the land
- 7. The supreme law of the United States of America
- 8. A branch of the government that is made of the House and the Senate
- 11. Legal, social, or ethical principles of freedom
- 13. A country that contains 50 states and is located in North America
- 14. A right to act freely without restraint