American Government Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. everyone has the same rules
- 4. The authority of the court to strike down any law passed by congress
- 7. makes laws
- 10. Those who supported the Constitution during the ratification period
- 11. Imposed new taxes on imports
- 12. Prohibits slavery
- 13. Rules by the people
- 14. Document or set of documents that establish the basic rules and procedure for how a society shall be governed
- 16. power resides with electorate, who then designates
- 17. Compromise over slavery at the Constitutional Convection that granted states extra representation
- 19. led a protest movement of debt-ridden farmers facing foreclosures on their homes and farms
- 20. Required colonist to export certain items only to Britain.
- 21. government bound by a written document
- 26. executes the laws
- 27. Those who opposed the new proposed Constitution
- 29. balance
- 30. Imposed new taxes on almost all paper products
Down
- 2. A social contract
- 3. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government
- 5. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by Congress
- 6. 12 states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation
- 8. interprets the law
- 9. Powers retained by the states under the constitution
- 15. to share powers with other branches
- 18. separation/sharing powers between national and state governments
- 22. vice president under John Adams
- 23. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause
- 24. forms a process of changing the constitution
- 25. a listing of rights retained by the people that Congress did not have the authority to take away
- 28. proposed a convection of states to consider granting the national government the power to tax and regulate trade