Ch 5 sec 1 vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Use one's authority to reject or cancel (a decision, view, etc.).
  2. 5. The Preamble to the United States Constitution, beginning with the words We the People, is a brief introductory statement of the US Constitution's fundamental purposes and guiding principles.
  3. 9. the distributions of seats in the house of representatives among the states.
  4. 11. The process of charging officials in the executive and judicial branches with wrong doing and bringing them to trial.
  5. 12. The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress
  6. 13. System in wich each branch of government is able to limit the power of the other branches.
  7. 14. worked out at the constitutional convention establishing that a states population would determine representation in the lower legislature, while each state would have equal representation in the upper.
  8. 15. the people of a particular geographic area who are represented by a lawmaking body.
Down
  1. 1. A congressional act or bill that sets aside funds for a specific purpose.
  2. 3. A group of people that seeks to influence public policy on the basis of a particular common interest or concern.Advice and Consent: Enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts
  3. 4. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.
  4. 6. Describes the design of the legislative branch of the US Government -- the Congress.
  5. 7. Enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts
  6. 8. consisting of two houses.
  7. 10. The power of congress to check up on the executive branch and to make sure it is following the laws congress has passed.