US Constitution

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Across
  1. 2. Current number of judges in the Supreme Court.
  2. 7. Supreme Court judges are given there positions by this method rather than being elected.
  3. 8. The first 10 amendments of the US Constitution combined.
  4. 9. Judiciary assumes legislative power by pushing its own interpretation of the Constitution.
  5. 12. The key feature of the US Constitution.
  6. 13. Firmly believing in following the written word of the Constitution.
  7. 14. States, Officials, Ambassadors or the USA are a party in the case.
  8. 16. Combining central and regional government systems to create dual sovereignty.
  9. 17. Judiciary holds other branches of government to account by its own interpretation of the Constitution.
  10. 18. An unwritten political customer important to Codified Constitutions.
  11. 20. Outlawed by the 13th amendment in 1864/65.
Down
  1. 1. Provided by splitting Government into 3 branches.
  2. 3. The first instance of the President being declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, 1804.
  3. 4. The first instance of the Supreme Court declaring Congress unconstitutional.
  4. 5. Power to hear a case of appeal that has already been held in a lesser court.
  5. 6. Interpreting by reading between the lines.
  6. 10. A disadvantage of a Codified Constitution.
  7. 11. Change is made over a long period of time and follows precedent.
  8. 15. To pass an amendment which takes back a previous one.
  9. 19. The number of courts set in Article 3 of the US Constitution.