American Government

5. The colour of the US Executive’s “house”
6. The president can appoint a judge, but his/her appointment must be approved by this body
8. US senators are seen as being more willing to change laws from the lower house because, unlike Canadian senators, US senators are this
10. If your boss was a fire-breathing Republican and you were a Democrat, you’d probably be glad that your ballot was this.
11. This US house does a similar job as the House of Commons in Canada.
13. This inventor of the “teddy bear” was also responsible for many policies that are a part of what we consider to be modern liberalism.
14. The last court of appeal
15. The US ensures no branch of government has too much power through as system of checks and ____________
17. The president has this power to “kill bill”

1. US citizens don’t quite choose their head of government directly. The final decision on who will be president is made by members of the electoral __________
2. Parliament is to Canadian government as ________________ is to the American government
3. The president’s in this branch.
4. In the US, they’re not ministers, they’re these...
7. The branch of government that makes laws.
9. a social, political and economic reform movement that pushed for more fairness and equality in turn-of-the-century America
12. ___________ vote: the percentage of total votes a candidate or a party receives in an election.
16. ________ are to the US as provinces are to Canada.