Us constitution
Across
- 2. the process by which a legislative body or other legally constituted tribunal initiates charges against a public official for misconduct
- 3. authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people.
- 6. provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
- 8. a common title for the head of state in most republics
- 9. the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
- 12. a mixed or compound mode of government that combines a general government with regional governments in a single political system
- 13. the division of a state's government into branches
- 16. explains laws
- 17. an aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity
- 18. a process under which executive
- 19. comprises the first ten amendments to the United States
- 20. Act of 1887 is a United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry
Down
- 1. existing or occurring inside a particular country; not foreign or international.
- 4. the House of Representatives and the Senate
- 5. enforces law
- 7. the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power.
- 10. the highest court
- 11. political ideology centered on citizenship in a state organized as a republic.
- 14. a formal or official change made to a law, contract, constitution, or other legal document.
- 15. the principle that the authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people