Chapter 13 - Federal and State Government
Across
- 3. The more you earn, the more you are taxed.
- 6. Possessing supreme power
- 10. Small group who study bills and make recommendations to the membership of each house.
- 12. First 10 Amendments to constitution.
- 14. First Constitution of the U.S.
- 16. Reject or refuse to sign.
- 17. group of citizens chosen to hear evidence in a trial and to determine guilt or innocence.
- 20. Way for citizens to submit constitutional amendments to the MS legislature.
Down
- 1. Set up current government framework.
- 2. State and Federal gov't share power.
- 4. Authority to hear a case for the first time.
- 5. Gives Congress authority to make laws.
- 7. Decision of a jury.
- 8. Authority to review a case that has already been tried and decided at a lower court.
- 9. Allows gov't to take private property.
- 11. Joint committee whose purpose is to work out differences between versions of a bill.
- 13. Postponement of a sentence.
- 15. Authority to determine the constitutionality of laws passed by Congress.
- 18. Legal forgiveness of a crime.
- 19. Legal issue involving an inability to pay debts.