American Government 3e - Chapter 3

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Across
  1. 1. Grants with broad purposes and flexible rules
  2. 6. Federal rules imposed on states, sometimes without funding
  3. 7. Federalism movement in the 1970s to shift power back to states
  4. 9. The process of transferring power from the federal government back to the states
  5. 12. Federalism era characterized by extensive federal grants-in-aid
  6. 13. Constitutional clause ensuring federal law prevails over conflicting state law
  7. 14. Strategy where interest groups switch between federal, state, or judicial venues
  8. 15. Constitutional clause giving Congress power to tax, borrow, and regulate commerce
Down
  1. 2. Grants used to ensure coordination through specific restrictions
  2. 3. List of powers explicitly granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8
  3. 4. Grants with specific federal regulations on their use
  4. 5. System where political power is shared between central and state governments
  5. 8. Federalism era when both national and state governments stayed within separate “spheres”
  6. 10. Branch that interprets laws and can declare them unconstitutional
  7. 11. Name for power for the states under the Tenth Amendment