Chapters 2 & 3

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Across
  1. 1. Authority of courts to declare laws passed by Congress and acts of the executive branch to be constitutional
  2. 5. Give each branch some authority over the powers of the other branches
  3. 11. Formal process of changing the Constitution
  4. 12. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by Congress
  5. 13. System of government where sovereignty is constitutionally divided between national and state government
  6. 14. A listing of rights retained by the people that Congress not have the authority to take away
  7. 15. Established a tax on virtually all forms of paper used by colonists
  8. 16. Those who supported the Constitution named themselves this
  9. 19. Declared American independence from Great Britain
  10. 22. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause
  11. 24. Right of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal
  12. 25. Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated in Section 8
  13. 26. The fundamental law undergirding the structure of government
  14. 27. Rule by the people
  15. 29. Powers held by both the national and state governments in a federal system
  16. 30. Broad coalitions of interests organized to win elections in order to enact a commonly supported set of public policies
Down
  1. 2. Those who opposed the new proposed Constitution became known as this
  2. 3. To formally withdraw from a nation-state
  3. 4. Compromise on legislative representation whereby the lower chamber is based on population, and the upper chamber provides equal representation to the states.
  4. 6. Initial government authority of the United States
  5. 7. Form of government where power derives from citizens, but public officials make policy and govern according to existing law
  6. 8. Divides the powers that remained with the national government among the three branches
  7. 9. Meeting in 1787 where twelve states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up talking about a new constitution
  8. 10. System of government where ultimate authority rests with the regional government
  9. 17. System of government where ultimate power rests with the national government
  10. 18. Powers retained by the states under the Constitution
  11. 20. Proposed convention of states to consider granting the national government the power to tax and to regulate
  12. 21. Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution
  13. 23. The presidential electors
  14. 28. Revolutionary war hero