Across
- 2. a certificate of debt issued by governments
- 7. an offical count of the number of people in a country
- 10. a fedral program of health insurance for people age 65 and over
- 11. members of the trial jury who judge evedence and determan the virdict in the court case
- 13. a formal charge brought against a gorvernment offcial
- 14. the amount by which expenditures exeed income
- 15. the branch of the government that interprets the laws and punish law breakers
- 17. branch the lawmakeing branch of the government
- 18. expensises tax payers are allowed to subtract from thier subtractible income.
- 20. a method of delaying action on a bill in the senate by makeing long speeches
Down
- 1. a person paid to represent a group's veiw point
- 3. A plan of income and spending
- 4. the procces of drawing congresional district lines to a favor a politiacal party.
- 5. the right of a convicted person to ask a higher court to review his or her case.
- 6. the total amount of money owned by the us government
- 8. the powers of the united states supreme court to determine if a law passed by congress or a presidential action is in accord with the constittution
- 9. the leaders of the executive department who also act as advisors to the president.
- 12. when seats in the US house of representatives are distributed among the states
- 16. small groups in congress formed to consider bills
- 19. proposed laws being considered by a lawmaking body