Across
- 3. Congress can make laws on issues that are not mentioned in the Constitution because of the
- 4. presidential privilege can keep a bill from passing through inaction
- 7. States that are closely divided on support for presidential candidates
- 9. passed in same form by both houses of Congress
- 12. specially equipped jet, planes, helicopters, and limousines used to transport the President
- 14. the act of one person taking the place of another
- 15. supreme and absolute power within a territory
- 16. plays a significant role in the economy,but does not completely control it
- 19. government system are all key powers given to the central government
- 20. tactic used in the Senate to delay action by talking for a very long time
- 21. the available body of facts or information
- 22. formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
Down
- 1. All power is in the hands of one person
- 2. more power to local governments than to the central government
- 5. legislature with two chambers, or houses
- 6. a formal written or spoken statement
- 8. the swearing in of a President to office
- 10. formal charge of criminal action
- 11. set of rules and standards by which a society governs itself
- 13. collective electors who cast votes for the President and Vice President
- 17. A paid representative of an interest group that works to persuade officials to support a point of view.
- 18. federal law
- 23. Congressional approval of government spending
