Our puzzling government

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Across
  1. 1. practice of interpreting and applying laws in order to define the extents and limits of government
  2. 4. a kind of government in which all key powers are given to central government
  3. 6. 1st basic system of laws
  4. 8. a nation with large industries
  5. 11. limit Kings power
  6. 14. insitution in which the state maintains social order
  7. 16. A plan for government that gave the people the right to elect governs, judges, and representatives
  8. 20. powers are divided between the national and state government
  9. 21. the people of a state
  10. 22. signed in 1620, plan for self-government
  11. 23. an organization that serves the needs of its member states
  12. 24. closed the boston harbor
Down
  1. 1. group of colonists that wanted to keep in touch with one another
  2. 2. area of land with established and recognized boundaries that a state occupies
  3. 3. 1765, imposed the 1st direct tax on the colonies
  4. 5. people elect delegates
  5. 7. plan for uniting the colonies
  6. 9. limited power
  7. 10. sizable group of people
  8. 12. Colonial legislation had power to pass laws
  9. 13. political community that occupies a define territory
  10. 15. a nation that is beginning its build up
  11. 17. the $ a government collects through taxes
  12. 18. the supreme and absolute authority of a state within its boundaries
  13. 19. agreement prohibiting trade