Understanding the US Government

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Across
  1. 3. law-making body with two houses
  2. 5. US national legislature consisting of Senate and House of Representatives
  3. 7. 435 state representatives in Congress
  4. 8. Supreme Court's ability to find laws or actions unconstitutional
  5. 9. group of Presidential advisers, such as the Secretary of State or Secretary of Education
  6. 11. written plan for the US Government
  7. 14. organization that raises money for a particular candidate or cause
  8. 16. branch of government that makes laws
  9. 18. first governing document of the US that gave most power to the states
  10. 19. branch of government that enforces laws
Down
  1. 1. someone who tries to persuade government leaders to support the goals of a special interest group
  2. 2. first ten amendments to our Constitution that protect individual and states rights
  3. 4. keeps any branch of governments from having too much power
  4. 6. head of a state's executive branch
  5. 8. branch of government that interprets laws
  6. 10. local government (county or city)
  7. 12. group of special voters who choose the President
  8. 13. proposed law
  9. 15. a way of governing which depends on the will of the people.
  10. 17. 100-member group of Congress (2 from each state)