Across
- 3. What committees are appointed to deal with special issues?
- 5. The right to mail official letters free of charge.
- 12. Court order requiring that an accused person be brought to court.
- 13. Procedure for accusing a high official of a serious crime.
Down
- 1. What are the people who live in a congressmembeer's home district or state called?
- 2. What is the name for the private meetings in which Republican Democratic members in each house choose their own leaders?
- 3. Which leader is the most powerful officer in the House?
- 4. What is the practice of drawing district lines that favor a particular group of people called?
- 6. The clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to stretch its powers to cover many other subjects.
- 7. A law that sentences a person to prison withour a trial.
- 8. What leader guides a party's proposed laws through Congress?
- 9. Which type of law would apply to an action that happened before the law was passed?
- 10. What term is used to describe the political party that has the most members in each house of Congress?
- 11. What is the term for the legal protection members of Congress have?
- 14. What type of leader tries to persuade members to vote for party-sponsored legislation?