Across
- 2. encourage fellow party members to vote as the party wants
- 3. charging officials with wrongdoing and bringing to trial
- 5. a bill that sets aside funds for a specific purpose
- 13. a law that punishes a person without trial
- 14. drawing district boundaries for political advantage
- 15. permanent committees
- 18. meeting of all the House members from a political party
- 19. elected person that helps manage the action of the party in the House
Down
- 1. distribution of House seats among states based on population
- 4. congress's commerce power
- 6. congress' power to review how the executive branch is operating
- 7. the people, voters
- 8. seats are distributed among states based on results of the census
- 9. tax levied on one person but passed on to another for payment
- 10. legal documents that require a person to testify in a certain matter
- 11. legal dispute
- 12. carry out specific tasks not already covered by exisiting committees
- 16. tax an individual pays directly to the government
- 17. criminalize an action from the past and that was legal at the time
- 20. allows government to function when there is not enough revenue