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Across 2. Concept that the government and its officers are always subject to the law. 4. Formal approval or final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty. 11. System of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check the actions of the others. 13. Chief executive's power to reject a bill passed by a legislature, literally (Latin) "I forbid" 14. Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law. 15. A change in, or addition to a constitution or law. 16. A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states.

Down 1. Basic principle of American system of government that the executive, legislative, and judicial powers are divided among three independent, and coequal branches of government. 3. The first ten amendments to the Constitution. 5. Basic principle of American government, which states that government is restricted in what it may do, and each individual has rights that government cannot take away. 6. A government that exists only with the consent of the governed. 7. A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national government and several regional governments like States. 8. The power of a court to determine the constitutionality of a governmental action. 9. Change or addition that becomes part of the written language of the Constitution itself through one of four methods set forth in the Constitution. 10. Contrary to constitutional provision and so illegal, null and void, of no force and effect. 12. An adjective describing a legislative body composed of two chambers.