Executive Branch Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 4. Domestic political activities, events, and situations happen or exist within one particular country.
  2. 6. a cancellation or postponement of a punishment.
  3. 10. the group of people employed in the administration of government.
  4. 13. agencies that serve in a support capacity by furnishing advice and assistance in the management of an organization.
  5. 18. a person who serves as the symbolic leader of the country and represents the nation
  6. 21. an official pardon for people who have been convicted of political offenses.
  7. 24. the process by which a governor, president, or administrative board may reduce a defendant's sentence or grant a pardon.
  8. 25. a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.
  9. 27. order of U.S. political officeholders gaining succession to the presidency,
  10. 28. is defined in the as the president having an influence on making and recommending laws to congress.
  11. 29. the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.
  12. 30. the control of or power to make appointments to government jobs or the power to grant other political favors.
  13. 31. practice in which the political party winning an election rewards its campaign workers
  14. 32. the use of executive power that exempts the individual to whom it was given from punishment.
  15. 33. agencies that actually perform the tasks for which the organization exists
  16. 35. often responsible for managing the party's relationship with the general public and leading the competition against political rivals, similar to the role of a party spokesperson.
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  1. 1. the power of a president, governor, or other elected executive to reject individual provisions of a bill.
  2. 2. an accounting period that spans 12 months.
  3. 3. the spending and revenues of the U.S. federal government.
  4. 5. top legal officers of their state or territory
  5. 7. the privilege, claimed by the president for the executive branch of the US government, of withholding information in the public interest.
  6. 8. power of the President to issue executive orders originates from the Constitution and acts of Congress
  7. 9. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.
  8. 11. a person appointed by a national government to conduct official negotiations and maintain political, economic, and social relations with another country or countries.
  9. 12. an official in a government department, in particular one perceived as being concerned with procedural correctness at the expense of people's needs.
  10. 14. represents all citizens of their country (president of the US represents the people of the united states) think the leader of representing
  11. 15. a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
  12. 16. the crime of spying or secretly watching a person, company, government, etc. for the purpose of gathering secret information
  13. 17. reducing or lessening a sentence or punishment resulting from a criminal conviction
  14. 19. a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office
  15. 20. agencies that, while constitutionally part of the executive branch, are independent of presidential control,
  16. 22. term used for presidential or prime ministerial powers given by a constitution or basic law
  17. 23. the president's executive role as the head of federal agencies and the person responsible for the implementation of national policy.
  18. 26. the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed forces or a military branch
  19. 34. affairs foreign political activities events and situations that happen outside of ones country