Across
- 3. When Senators or Representatives have the floor and talk about anything and everything in order to stop a bill from being passed
- 5. another name for a lawmaking body of two houses
- 6. the order of which the office of president is to be filled
- 8. written agreements with other countries
- 9. government's plan for interacting with other countries in the world
- 11. the process of which someone asks a higher court to review the result of his or her trial
- 12. authority that a court has to hear and decide a case that's been properly brought before it
- 13. group of laws defining which acts are crimes
- 15. the most powerful officer in the House of Representatives
Down
- 1. this power allows the US courts to decide whether a law or presidential action in agreement with the Constitution
- 2. the presidential speech that sets forth the programs and policies that the president wants Congress to put into effects as laws
- 4. the legal protection that Congress members have
- 7. group of laws referring to disputes between people
- 10. the many departments and agencies in the executive branch of the federal government
- 14. when a high official is accused of a serious crime and possibly removed from office