7th Grade Civics: Three Branches Activity

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Across
  1. 3. When Senators or Representatives have the floor and talk about anything and everything in order to stop a bill from being passed
  2. 5. another name for a lawmaking body of two houses
  3. 6. the order of which the office of president is to be filled
  4. 8. written agreements with other countries
  5. 9. government's plan for interacting with other countries in the world
  6. 11. the process of which someone asks a higher court to review the result of his or her trial
  7. 12. authority that a court has to hear and decide a case that's been properly brought before it
  8. 13. group of laws defining which acts are crimes
  9. 15. the most powerful officer in the House of Representatives
Down
  1. 1. this power allows the US courts to decide whether a law or presidential action in agreement with the Constitution
  2. 2. the presidential speech that sets forth the programs and policies that the president wants Congress to put into effects as laws
  3. 4. the legal protection that Congress members have
  4. 7. group of laws referring to disputes between people
  5. 10. the many departments and agencies in the executive branch of the federal government
  6. 14. when a high official is accused of a serious crime and possibly removed from office