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Vocabulary University® - Constitution Day Crossword

Clues to the 18 words in the Constitution Day Crossword:
(Puzzles answers are at the very bottom of this page.)

ACROSS:

2 - Having the power or performing the function of enacting laws
3 - Entirely without fault; faithfully reproducing the original; lacking in no detail
5 - To ascertain the number of: count; to specify one after another: to list
13 - To cause to last indefinitely
14 - Without equal; the only one of its kind: very notable; unusualness
15 - To make firm or settle; to bring into being on a firm or permanent basis
16 - A strong support or involvement with members of two parties
17 - The instance of reading or repeating aloud especially publicly
18 - Improvement, a modification, addition or correction proposed or made in a law, motion or bill
DOWN:
1 - The political party in the early years of the US favoring a strong centralized national government
4 - To take into the mind; to form an idea of: imagine
6 - Existing or occurring at the same time: coincident
7 - A government with a chief of state, not a monarch, who is usually a president
8 - Freedom from agitation, disturbance oir turmoil: serene
9 - To establish by appointment, decree or law: destine
10 - To relieve from danger or exposure: guard, shield; to put beyond hazard
11 - Formal approval or sanction: confirmation
12 - Offspring to the furthest generation; those who come after in time

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Constitution Day Word Find
Constitution Day Preamble Puzzle
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ANSWERS in graphic form: CW answers
ANSWERS across: 2=legislative, 3=perfect, 5=enumerate, 13=perpetuate, 14=uniqueness, 15=establish, 16=bipartisanship, 17=recitation, 18=amendment
ANSWERS down: 1=federalism, 4=conceive, 6=simultaneous=, 7=republic, 8=tranquility, 9=ordain, 10=secure, 11=ratificationr, 12=posterity

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