Govt Vocab

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  1. 4. the power of the supreme court to doclare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional.
  2. 6. makes clear that the Constitution, federal laws, federal regulations.
  3. 9. Bill of rights.
  4. 12. to return a criminal or fugitive who flees across state lines back to the original state.
  5. 13. a formal agreement between the government of two or more countries.
  6. 14. a change to the constitution.
  7. 16. the division of power between the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.
  8. 18. to approve.
  9. 19. the system where each branch of government exercises some control over the others.
  10. 20. citizen who will be affected by a government decision must be given advance notice of what the government plans to do.
  11. 21. and appeal.
Down
  1. 1. law that requires periodic checks of government agencies to see if they are still needed.
  2. 2. a formalaccusation of misconduct in office against a public officia.
  3. 3. a system in which power is divided between the national and state governments.
  4. 5. a system in which the power of the government is limited.
  5. 7. rule by the people
  6. 8. money paid in order to vote.
  7. 10. rejection of a bill.
  8. 11. the tax levied on individual and corporate earning.
  9. 15. clause in Article 1, section 8 of the constitutionthat gives congressthe right to make all laws ¨necessary and proper¨ to carry out the power expressed in the other clauses of Artical 1.
  10. 17. one of seven main divisions of the body of the constitution.