Possible Clues:

• Kind of case or law
• Like serious crimes
• The __ City (what Washington called Washington)
• In alliance
• Architecture style of 200 years ago
• Like the government of linked states
• Brutal journalist arrested - so like the US political system
• *Like the government outlined in the Constitution
• Relating to a treaty
• (Of a union or government) involving states voluntarily joined together for common purposes