Unit 5 Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 4. a release from punishment or the legal consequences of a crime that restores the full rights and privileges of citizenship to a person
  2. 5. a written statement issued by a president at the time he or she signs a bill into law
  3. 7. the total amount of money the federal government owes to investors
  4. 9. expenses required to implement a federal law
  5. 10. a 1967 law establishing a right to request records and information from federal agencies
  6. 13. the hiring and promotion of employees based on demonstrated skills and achievements rather than political loyalty
  7. 16. to order troops into action
  8. 17. nonmilitary employees of the government
  9. 18. a type of veto that occurs when the president refuses to sign a bill and Congress adjourns within 10 working days after the bill has been submitted to the president
  10. 20. taxes that employers withhold from an employee's wages and pay on behalf of the employee
  11. 22. organizational units of government providing a particular service or concerned with a particular category of functions
  12. 23. the president's assistant for national security affairs, who heads the NSC staff and serves as the president's chief in-house advisor on national security
  13. 24. organizations within the executive branch whose head is a member of the cabinet
  14. 25. presidential orders that have the force of law
Down
  1. 1. businesses that are the sole source of a good or service
  2. 2. the hiring or contracting a private business to perform a function on behalf of the government
  3. 3. determination of the value of an action by comparison of its total fiscal costs and benefits
  4. 6. the practice of using government or public jobs to reward those who helped victorious candidates win an election
  5. 8. a large, complex administrative organization that is structured hierarchically
  6. 11. detailed rules or orders issued by the government and having the force of law
  7. 12. an election in which one candidate receives a notably high majority of the vote
  8. 14. the total value of all goods and services produced by a country in a year
  9. 15. an insider who reports an agency's or organization's failures or malfeasance to outside authorities
  10. 19. declared secret by the government
  11. 21. a pardon bestowed on an entire class of people