Chapter 8 vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. One of the 50 political units that make up the United States; the level of government is below that of the nation.
  2. 4. Formal approval of a proposed action
  3. 6. Consisting of only one house or chamber, as was the case in Georgia’s legislature from 1777 to 1789
  4. 9. The legal document that authorizes a state or national government to exist. A constitution usually outlines fundamental principles, form, major officials, and powers of a government.
  5. 12. Relating to the national government.
  6. 14. To refuse to use or buy something as a protest or as a way to force change
  7. 15. A formal written request.
  8. 16. To impose or set, as in the case of a government levying taxes
  9. 17. Consisting of two houses or chambers. The legislatures of the United States and Georgia are bicameral, each having a Senate and a House of Representative's
  10. 18. Taxes paid on imports.
  11. 19. Relating to the branch of government that makes the laws
  12. 21. American colonists, also called “patriots,” who opposed British government before and during the American Revolution.
Down
  1. 1. A loose union of sovereign states in which the central government is given limited power.
  2. 2. An introductory statement to a legal document
  3. 5. American colonists also called “loyalists,” who supported the British government before and during the American Revolution.
  4. 7. Exclusive right to act or conduct business without competition
  5. 8. Relating to the branch of government that settles legal arguments interprets the law and decides issues of constitutionality.
  6. 10. Refers to the branch of government that carries out the laws.
  7. 11. An independent country with its own government
  8. 13. A military unit of citizens who are not professional soldiers
  9. 20. To carry on illegal trade