The Executive Branch

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  1. 2. These turn the Sun's energy into electricity.
  2. 6. This Department helps decide what sorts of energy Americans use.
  3. 8. He became the youngest U.S. President at the age of forty-three.
  4. 9. Of or relating to the branch of government that leads a nation and carries out the laws of the land.
  5. 11. He met with the president of Egypt in 1978.
  6. 13. The first woman on the Supreme Court.
  7. 16. The branch of the government that watches over the U.S. justice system.
  8. 17. To officially agree to.
  9. 18. The Speaker of the House in 2007.
  10. 20. An important part of the Constitution that helps keep one branch from having too much power.
  11. 21. This president selected the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
  12. 24. The set of written rules and ideas upon which United States laws are based.
  13. 25. The branch of the government that makes the laws and is the voice of the American people.
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  1. 1. The act of choosing a person for government office by voting.
  2. 3. To refuse to approve a bill so it does not become a law.
  3. 4. The only president to serve four terms.
  4. 5. The number of departments included in the cabinet.
  5. 7. This president signed a law to protect certain wild animals in 1972.
  6. 10. The current president of the United States (2024).
  7. 12. This president wrote an order that freed many slaves in 1863.
  8. 14. The first president of the United States.
  9. 15. The highest court of the Judicial Branch.
  10. 19. He replaced Richard Nixon as President in 1974.
  11. 22. The minimum age an individual must be to run for President of the United States.
  12. 23. A group of advisers to a president or other leader of a country.