Across
- 7. procedural motion to end a debate on a bill
- 8. committee/both houses of congress that proposes compromise legislation
- 9. using spoken words
- 11. process by which congress allocates the number of representatives for each state, based on changes in the census
- 13. number of members in a group required to be present to carry out official business
- 14. president's selected advisors, usually consist of the heads of the executive departments.
- 17. process by which each state draws boundaries of it's congressional districts
- 19. veto/president's power to prevent passage of a bill by refusing to sign it
- 21. power to reject a bill passed by congress
- 24. Madison/father of the constitution
- 25. state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge citizens privileges
Down
- 1. time of economic decline
- 2. on imports
- 3. Washington/Virginia delegate voted president of the constitutional convention
- 4. corpus/a court order direct that an officer who has custody of a prisoner show cause why the prisoner is being held.
- 5. debate on a bill designed to prevent a vote on its passage
- 6. law
- 10. voluntary association of independent u.s.
- 12. on domestic consumption of goods and services
- 15. of attainder/a legislative act that punishes a person without a trial
- 16. item veto/power to reject specific provisions in a law without defeating entire bill
- 18. post facto laws/those that criminalize actions after the fact
- 20. veto/congress voids actions of executive branch officials
- 22. powers/those powers that belong to the government of a sovereign state
- 23. privilege/president doesn't have to share certain information without congress or the judiciary