Across
- 2. enforces law
- 3. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States
- 6. the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power.
- 10. existing or occurring inside a particular country; not foreign or international.
- 11. a common title for the head of state in most republics
- 16. the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
- 18. a formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document.
- 19. provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
- 20. the highest court
Down
- 1. a mixed or compound mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system
- 4. the division of a state's government into branches
- 5. the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people
- 7. the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct
- 8. explains laws
- 9. an aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity
- 12. political ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic.
- 13. authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people.
- 14. the House of Representatives and the Senate
- 15. Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
- 17. a process under which executive
