Across
- 3. Obama does this to block laws he doesn't favor
- 7. The branch of government that carries out laws
- 8. Power to declare war belonging only to the national government is known as
- 9. court highest federal court in the U.S.
- 10. legislature made up of two parts/houses
- 13. power divided into three branches (legislative, executive, and judicial)
- 15. Power shared between the national government and state governments
- 16. President Nixon was charge with this
Down
- 1. Virginia has the power to set the drinking age
- 2. elected leader of a democratic country
- 4. the law making body of a state or nation
- 5. Each branch has certain powers to limit the other branches
- 6. The branch of government that makes laws
- 11. The branch of government that interprets laws
- 12. to assign someone a job
- 14. government which is divided between national, state, and local governments