Unit 1&2

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Across
  1. 4. charged with reviewing and making recommendations for government budgets.
  2. 7. powers shared by both the federal government and state governments. This includes the power to tax, build roads, and create lower courts.
  3. 8. conference of members of a legislative body who belong to a particular party or faction.
  4. 11. Citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies
  5. 16. Political system where there is more than one center of power
  6. 18. political group tries to change a voting district to create a result that helps them or hurts the group who is against them.
  7. 21. Anti-Federalist series of essays criticizing the proposed Constitution. Paralleled the federalist papers and argued that a bill of rights was necessary.
  8. 22. Most liberal Supreme Court
Down
  1. 1. a series of essays written in support of the Constitution.
  2. 2. allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch so as to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power.
  3. 3. a model of democracy in which a small number of people, usually those who are wealthy or well-educated, influence political decision making.
  4. 5. mode of political organization that unites separate states or other polities within an overarching political system. Combines central federal government and state governments.
  5. 6. provided a dual system of congressional representation. House of Representatives each state would be assigned a number of seats in proportion to its population and each state gets an equal number of senators (2).
  6. 9. counted each enslaved person as 3/5th a person for the population as related to the representatives in the House of Representatives. Needed for southern states to ratify the Constitution.
  7. 10. legislature, one divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses. House of Representatives and Senate.
  8. 11. government based on consent of the people.
  9. 12. first ten amendments of the US Constitution. Protects natural rights.
  10. 13. If a federal official commits a crime or otherwise acts improperly, the House of Representatives may charge that official. If the official is convicted in a Senate impeachment trial, they are removed from office.
  11. 14. clause that extends the powers of Congress allowing it to make laws based on new developments. AKA the “necessary and proper” clause.
  12. 15. current secretary of state
  13. 17. meeting of the electors where they vote for President and Vice President, and the counting of the electoral votes by Congress. Each state gets the same number of electoral votes as they have congressional representatives.
  14. 19. decision that overturned Roe v Wade
  15. 20. Current chief justice