Across
- 5. Petitioning a court for this writ safeguards Americans from being unlawfully jailed
- 7. The most powerful member of the House
- 10. Address major areas of legislation, such as agriculture or budget or the armed services
- 14. Redistribution of House seats every 10 years after the census counts the population
- 15. A tax levied on someone but passed along to another person for payment (often included in the final price of a product)
- 16. Distribution of House seats among the states based upon population
- 18. Becoming a citizen
- 19. Proposed laws
- 20. The people who live within one House member's district
- 21. Gives Congress the power to regulate interstate economic activity
Down
- 1. A House leader who helps manage the actions and strategy of a party
- 2. The power to charges executive and judicial branch members with wrongdoing
- 3. A Congressional leader who is responsible for getting party members to vote the way the party wants
- 4. Is the source of Congress' implied powers
- 6. A specially-created committee to carry out a task not already covered by an existing committee
- 8. Congress' power to investigate the other branches of government
- 9. A bill that sets aside money for a specific purpose
- 11. Drawing district boundaries in a way that maximizes one party's political power
- 12. A paper that requires someone to testify as a witness, or to provide documents
- 13. A meeting of all the House members of one party
- 17. A law that makes a prior action illegal, even though it was legal when it occurred