Topic 3 Halfway Review
Across
- 1. the government must be conducted according to constitutional principles
- 4. a government action found to violate some provision in the Constitution
- 5. Change in the written word
- 7. make up the first ten amendments
- 8. lower federal courts under the Supreme Court
- 12. each branch is subject to a number of constitutional checks
- 14. Senate approval of presidential appointees
- 17. changes that become part of the written language of the Constitution
- 19. formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
- 20. establishes the presidency
Down
- 2. basic powers are separated among three branches
- 3. pact made by the President directly with the head of a foreign state
- 6. division of power among a central government and several regional governments
- 9. power of a court to determine the constitutionality of the government actions
- 10. government and its officers are always subject to but never above the law
- 11. made up of two houses
- 13. no government is all powerful
- 15. all political power resides in the people
- 16. body that makes up the formal selection of the nation's president
- 18. advisory body to the President