Federalism
Across
- 3. Our rights to pass through or live in any state, use the court, make contracts; buy, sell, and hold property; and marry
- 4. Prevents public officials from holding a closed meeting
- 6. Taxes levied on individual earnings
- 9. Power to assume responsibility for a state government function to gain power over a state
- 11. Supports federalism by helping governors in state policy making and influencing national policy
- 12. Return to a state
- 14. A requirement set by Congress prohibiting a local or state government from exercising a certain power
- 15. Federal order requiring states to provide a service or undertake an activity
- 18. Prohibits racial discrimination
- 19. A way of settling disputes between states
- 20. A nationalist Chief Justice; presided during McCulloch
- 21. Money given to the state or local government to be spent for a variety of purposes
- 22. Periodic checks of government agencies to see if they’re still needed
- 23. The course of action a government takes in response to a problem
- 24. Powers that both the state and the government have
Down
- 1. Favors state and local action in dealing with problems
- 2. Laws relating to disputes between individuals, groups, or with the state
- 5. Powers directly expressed in the Constitution
- 7. Enables the people of the territory interested in becoming a state to prepare a constitution
- 8. Powers the Constitution grants or delegates to the national government
- 10. Organization of government administrators to carry out Legislation
- 13. Those powers that the national government requires to carry out the powers that are expressly defined in the Constitution
- 16. Allows the Constitution to “stretch”
- 17. Favors national action in dealing with problems
- 19. Powers that are executed just because it’s a government