Legislative Branch Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Two year period of time during which Congress meets.
  2. 7. Executive’s power to refuse a bill. Latin for “I forbid.”
  3. 10. not stated in the Constitution but drawn from expressed powers
  4. 12. legal process where citizens of one country become citizens.
  5. 16. Congress meets outside of its regular session. called by the president
  6. 17. first allegiance is to their political party
  7. 18. Drawing of electoral lines to benefit one particular party.
Down
  1. 1. people and interests that Congress represents
  2. 2. Powers that are written out in the Constitution
  3. 3. redistribute seats based on population every 10 years
  4. 5. Attachment to a bill that wouldn’t pass on its own.
  5. 6. elected from the state as a whole instead from separate districts
  6. 8. An election not in the same year as a Presidential election.
  7. 9. Congress suspends until its next session
  8. 11. A long speech in the Senate to try and block action on a bill.
  9. 13. number of seats is based on state populations reevaluated every 10 years in the census
  10. 14. A legislative body where all of the seats are never up for re-election at the same time.
  11. 15. proposed laws by each house of congress