Across
- 3. excessive bureaucracy or adherence to rules and formalities, especially in public business.
- 4. a public office or position of authority that provides its occupant with an outstanding opportunity to speak out on any issue.
- 7. issues capable of being settled as a matter of law
- 8. from active participation in partisan politics while on duty. The same law applies at all times to federal employees in sensitive positions.
- 10. Lawsuits in which a small number of people sue on behalf of all people in similar circumstances.
Down
- 1. Short-term patriotic increase in president's popularity and power during times of serious international crisis or war.
- 2. Also known as subgovernments, iron triangles consist of interest groups, government agencies, and congres-sional committees or subcommittees that have a mutually dependent, mutu-ally advantageous relationship; they dominate some areas of domestic policymaking.
- 5. group of officials who head government departments and advise the President.
- 6. The events and scandal surrounding a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in 1972 and the subsequent cover-up of White House involvement, leading to the eventual resignation of President Nixon under the threat of impeachment.
- 9. A federal law prohibiting government