vocabulary puzzle

6. a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.
7. a charge of misconduct made against the holder of a public office.
8. a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by a law-making body.
9. The Cabinet's role is to advise the President on any subject he or she may require relating to the duties of each member's respective office.
10. the crime of betraying one's country, especially by attempting to kill the sovereign or overthrow the government.
11. a rule or order issued by the president to an executive branch of the government and having the force of law.

1. If the President of the United States is incapacitated, dies, resigns, is for any reason unable to hold his/her office, or is removed from office, he/she will be replaced in the following order: Vice President.
2. The State of the Union Address is an annual message delivered by the president of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress near the beginning of each calendar year on the current condition of the nation.
3. In representative democracies, a mandate (or seat) is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative.
4. A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction.
5. Other than to succeed to the presidency upon the death or resignation of a president, a vice president's only constitutional duty is to preside over the Senate.