Civics: Unit 2 - The Legislative Branch
Across
- 3. laws that hold people accountable for an action taken before it was made illegal
- 6. directs the activities of the minority party on the Senate floor
- 8. In which a person may challenge the legality of their imprisonment
- 12. made of members from both houses to eliminate differences in bills on the same subject passed in the different chambers
- 13. the putting of a legislative bill into final form
- 14. a division of a committee usually organized for a specific purpose
- 15. an action that obstructs progress in a legislative assembly
- 16. a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote
- 17. a voter in a district represented by an elected official
- 18. the political and parliamentary leader of the House of Representatives
Down
- 1. a group of people appointed for a specific function
- 2. laws that punish without a trial
- 4. the process of altering a law or document (such as a constitution) by parliamentary or constitutional procedure
- 5. directs the activities of the majority party on the floor of the Senate
- 7. sets the rules, procedure, date & extent of debate of a proposed bill
- 9. having two branches, chambers, or houses, as a legislative body
- 10. representation based on population
- 11. a session (as of a legislative committee) in which testimony is taken from witnesses