We The People: Election Season

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Across
  1. 1. A government in which a single ruler possesses and abuses absolute power
  2. 3. The national legislature of the United States. Congress has two parts, also called houses: the Senate and the House of Representatives
  3. 4. To bring to trial a public official accused of committing a crime or engaging in misconduct while in office
  4. 6. One of the two houses of Congress. Each state is represented by two members in the Senate
  5. 8. A form of government in which political power is exercised by all citizens (Representation)
  6. 11. A change in or addition to a legal document
  7. 15. Fundamental rights belonging to every member of society
  8. 16. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which has been used to prevent states from treating individuals unfairly because of their race, national origin, citizenship status, or gender.
  9. 17. The British law that granted the East India Company a monopoly on importation of tea into the colonies, thus eliminating the profits of Colonial importers and shopkeepers
  10. 18. To confirm and approve
  11. 19. The first political organization formed in opposition to the Federalist Party by the supporters of Thomas Jefferson. It evolved into the Democratic Party in 1828 and has no connection to the present-day Republican Party
  12. 20. An act of rebellion against British authority, and in particular in response to the Tea Act, which a band of Colonist boarded ships in Boston Harbor and destroyed thousands of dollars worth of tea
Down
  1. 2. A person elected to act and speak for others
  2. 5. Newspapers, magazines, television, and other news media. The reporters and people who produce them.
  3. 7. The delegates to the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. They are the group of men who composed the U.S. Constitution
  4. 9. A set of customs, traditions, rules, and laws that sets forth the way a government is organized and operated
  5. 10. A person who is a legal member of a nation, country, or other self-governing community
  6. 12. A form of government in which political power is held by a single ruler such as a king or queen
  7. 13. One of the 538 members of the Electoral College chosen by the political parties in a state. Any qualified voter
  8. 14. On March 75, 1770, a mob of Colonists harassed British Soldiers guarding the tax collection office in Boston. The Soldiers opened fire, killing five Bostonians