Unit 2 (2.8-2.15): Interactions Among Branches

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Across
  1. 6. Following rules and regulations
  2. 7. Agency that regulates the stock market
  3. 8. Principle meaning “to stand by things decided”
  4. 9. Supreme Court justices serve for life
  5. 14. Public acceptance of the Court’s authority
  6. 16. Groups that unite around shared policy goals
  7. 17. Agency power to interpret and implement laws
  8. 21. Constitutional article that establishes the judicial branch
  9. 23. Process agencies use to create regulations
  10. 25. Court ruling that creates public disagreement
  11. 29. Government employees hired based on merit
  12. 33. Written constitutional authority
  13. 35. Federalist paper that argued for an independent judiciary
  14. 36. Hiring based on qualifications, not politics
  15. 38. Agencies that carry out federal laws
  16. 40. Courts striking down laws using judicial review
  17. 41. Earlier court decision used to guide later cases
  18. 42. Courts avoiding interference with elected branches
Down
  1. 1. Adding more justices to influence decisions
  2. 2. Meetings to review government programs
  3. 3. System preventing any branch from becoming too powerful
  4. 4. Senate approval of federal judges
  5. 5. Congress’s control over federal spending
  6. 8. Another name for political patronage
  7. 10. Power to create binding regulations
  8. 11. Formal way to overturn Supreme Court decisions
  9. 12. Agency that enforces government rules
  10. 13. Congress limiting the types of cases the Court can hear
  11. 15. Shift in liberal and conservative justices
  12. 18. Congress monitoring executive agencies
  13. 19. Power of courts to declare laws unconstitutional
  14. 20. Giving government jobs to party supporters
  15. 22. Relationship among Congress, agencies, and interest groups
  16. 24. Supreme Court case that established judicial review
  17. 26. Unwritten influence over the bureaucracy
  18. 27. Freedom of courts from control by other branches
  19. 28. Holding agencies responsible for their actions
  20. 30. Rules that govern how laws are carried out
  21. 31. When officials ignore a Court ruling
  22. 32. Way presidents influence the Court over time
  23. 34. Legal authority to hear a case
  24. 37. Agency that enforces election laws
  25. 39. Agency that regulates environmental policy