Chapter 2 and 3 Keywords

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Across
  1. 2. a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics.
  2. 3. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
  3. 7. form of democracy in which power is vested in representatives
  4. 9. a statement of the rights of a class of people, in particular.
  5. 10. the power of a president, governor, or other elected executive to reject individual provisions of a bill.
  6. 12. an alliance for combined action
  7. 14. meeting of delegates in 1787 to revise the articles of confederation
  8. 17. power of the legislature, judicial, and executive branches to block some acts of the other two
  9. 18. rebellion in 1787 led by Daniel shays and others to prevent foreclosures of farms
  10. 19. an incorporated municipality, usually governed by a mayor and a board of aldermen or councilmen
  11. 22. the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
  12. 26. districts a geographical unit for the local administration of schools.
  13. 27. is the capacity of the states to regulate behavior and enforce order within their territory for the betterment of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of their inhabitants
  14. 29. a series of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.
  15. 33. a city, town, village, or borough that has governmental powers
  16. 34. the federal principle or system of government.
  17. 35. Dual federalism is a belief that the United States is divided into two spheres. It is believed that power is split between the federal government and each constituent state.
  18. 36. supreme power or authority.
Down
  1. 1. a political and administrative division of a state, providing certain local governmental services.
  2. 4. a constitution drafted by the newly independent states in 1777. Also created a weak national government that could not levy taxes or regulate commerce.
  3. 5. A political system in which local units of government have a specially protected existence and can make final decisions over some governmental activities
  4. 6. a minor change in a document.
  5. 8. based on nature and providence rather than on the preferences of people
  6. 11. review power of courts to declare acts of the legislature and the executive to be unconstitutional
  7. 12. grants, issued by the United States Congress, which may be spent only for narrowly-defined purposes.
  8. 13. The specific powers and duties of the U.S. Congress are enumerated in several places in the Constitution
  9. 15. The unitary system gives the main powers to the central government. State, provincial, and local governments are all created by the central goverment
  10. 16. people who supported Anti-Federalism which refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government
  11. 20. a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge
  12. 21. a piece of legislation enacted by a municipal authority.
  13. 23. A legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial
  14. 24. an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.
  15. 25. the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level,
  16. 28. a grant from a central government that a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services.
  17. 29. an advocate or supporter of federalism.
  18. 30. a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law
  19. 31. compromise at the constitutional convention in 1787 that reconciled the interests of small and large states
  20. 32. a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.