US Government Vocabulary
Across
- 4. Official change, correction, or addition to a law or constitution
- 6. An official approval
- 7. The division of the government that proposes bills and passes them into laws
- 12. Constitution and the Louisiana Purchase, president of the seventeenth ammendment, term of office
- 14. The first 10 amendments to the costitution
- 16. Constitution, and the impeachment, term of office, ways and means comitee
- 17. An agreement worked out at the constitutional conventional stating that only three-fifths in the state would count
- 18. The plan for government proposed at the constitutional convention in which the national government would have supreme power
Down
- 1. The division of the federal government that includes the president and the administrative government
- 2. The division of the federal government that is made up of the national courts, interpret laws and punishes criminals
- 3. Constitutional principle that divides government power into three branches, with each a different responsibility
- 5. The document that created the US Central Government
- 8. An agreement worked out at the constitutional convention establishing that a state's population would determine representation
- 9. An uprising of Massachussett's farmers, led by Daniel Shays, to protest high taxes, heavy debt, and farm foreclosures
- 10. US system of government in which power is distributed between a central government and individual states
- 11. A proposal to create a unicameral legislature with equal representation of states rather than representation
- 13. A set of basic principles that determines the power and duties of a government
- 15. A system developed by the constitution that prevents any branch of government from becoming too powerful