Across
- 3. a bill that sets aside funds for a specific purpose
- 4. the smaller upper assembly in the US Congress
- 5. congress has the power to charge officials in the executive branch with wrongdoing and bring them to trial
- 7. the distribution of house seats among the states based on population
- 8. design of the legislative branch of US Government
- 10. established the United States legislature as a bicameral or two house law making body
- 12. share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes.
- 14. a veto by passing the act by a twothirds vote in both the House and the Senate
- 15. congress has broad powers to review how the executive branch is operating and to make sure it is following the laws congress has passed
Down
- 1. the lower legislative branch in many national and state bicameral governing bodies
- 2. share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes.
- 6. The people who live within that area
- 9. The Preamble to the United States Constitution beginning with the words
- 11. two or both houses
- 13. provides each branch of government with individual powers to check the other branches and prevent any one branch from becoming too powerful.
