Across
- 2. call into question the integrity or validity of a practice
- 3. the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution, ratified, in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedom of speech, assembly, and worship
- 5. a formal meeting or series of meetings for a discussion between delegates especially those from a political party or labor union or from within a particular discipline
- 10. support for a republican system of government
- 12. a minor change or addition designed to improve a text, peace of legislation, etc
- 14. the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power
- 16. transacting or transportational products, services, or money across state borders
- 18. review by the U.S. supreme court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act
Down
- 1. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in seperate bodies
- 4. how the branches monitor each other
- 6. executes the laws
- 7. principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
- 8. the highest judicial court in a country or state
- 9. a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed
- 11. studies and interprets the laws
- 13. existing or occurring inside a particular country not foreign or internationally
- 15. makes and changes laws
- 17. the elected head of a republic