Texas and U.S. Government

3. The judicial branch of government, it tries cases involving government and administers justice.
6. A system whereby each branch of government has the ability to limit the actions of the other branches.
8. Elected officials who make the laws for the state.
9. The term for the fact that the powers of government are divided into three separate branches.
10. A note or guarentee issued by the government promising to repay money it borrows, with interest.
12. An assembly or council of citizens having the highest deliberative functions in a government, especially a legislative assembly of a state or nation.
13. Having to do with the chief officer of a government.
14. A series of laws in a constitution that protects specific rights of citizens.
15. The elected executive head of a state of the US.

1. One of the constituent states of the newly established United Mexican States.
2. A type of government in which powers and duties between the states and the national government are shared.
4. The lower house of the United States Congress with 435 popularly elected officials from each state.s
5. a political power that a constitution reserved exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
7. An addition to a formal document such as a constitution
11. The highest judicial court in a country or state.