Government Key Terms
Across
- 2. Making something valid by formally confirming it
- 3. A system of government where the most important decisions are made by state officials
- 5. This branch carries out and enforces laws
- 9. State is ruled by representatives of the citizen body
- 12. A group of the heads of federals departments and key agencies, that advises the president
- 16. A statute in draft before it becomes law
- 17. This branch creates laws
- 19. Legal member of a political unit
- 20. Act of forming or establishing something
Down
- 1. Government of the people
- 4. law Collection of court decisions that shape law
- 6. of state Head of government in the U.S., typically the president
- 7. A vote that blocks a decision
- 8. Of a government with central and regional authorities
- 10. of rights: Statement of fundamental freedoms and privileges
- 11. rights Rights of equality under the law
- 13. of confederation: America's first national constitution, loosely bound the U.S. states under a weak national Congress
- 14. This branch interprets laws and applies j-justice
- 15. A controlling body of a nation, state, or community
- 18. Statement that is added to a proposal or -document