Across
- 1. secretly allow (something considered immoral, illegal, wrong, or harmful) to occur
- 2. related to the adjective candid, refers to straightforward honesty or frankness in speech or expression
- 3. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction
- 5. the party who brings a legal action or in whose name it is brought
- 6. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
- 11. the official power to make legal decisions and judgments
- 15. the ability to do something successfully or efficiently
- 18. reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on
- 19. imply or hint
- 21. ruled that a citizen's "privileges and immunities," as protected by the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment against the states, were limited to those spelled out in the Constitution and did not include many rights given by the individual states
- 22. an unskilled native laborer in India, China, and some other Asian countries
- 24. shorten (a piece of writing) without losing the sense
- 25. a catch-all category of property associated with movable goods
Down
- 1. the quality of being in accordance with a political constitution
- 4. an urgent need or demand
- 7. a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work
- 8. a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument
- 9. mix; blend
- 10. the ability to move from place to place, movement
- 12. consign or dismiss to an inferior rank or position
- 13. accept something reluctantly but without protest
- 14. formal. praise, or an official statement that praises someone:
- 16. a cruel and oppressive ruler.
- 17. (of a task, duty, or responsibility) involving an amount of effort and difficulty that is oppressively burdensome
- 20. destroy completely; put an end to.
- 23. the condition of being lower in status or quality than another or others