Government- Chapters 2 & 3 vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, with Indian tribes, and among the various states (Article I, Section 8)
  2. 3. democracy Form of democracy in which political power is exercised directly by citizens
  3. 5. Form of government in which power derives from citizens, but public officials to make political decisions and formulate laws on their behalf
  4. 6. Those who opposed the new proposed Constitution during the ratification process
  5. 12. Meeting in 1787 at which twelve states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up proposing an entirely new Constitution
  6. 15. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the regional (for example, state) governments
  7. 18. Compromise over slavery at the Constitutional Convention that granted states extra representation in the House of Representatives based on their number of slaves at the ratio of three-fifths
  8. 20. Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution
  9. 22. Gives Congress the power to tax to provide for the general welfare
  10. 24. Powers held by both the national and state governments in a federal system
  11. 25. Process for selecting state judges whereby the original nomination is by appointment, and subsequent retention is by a retention election
  12. 26. System of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between national and state governments
  13. 27. Doctrine holding the state governments and the federal government have almost completely separate functions
  14. 29. Government structure in which authority is divided among branches (executive, legislative, and judicial), with each holding separate and independent powers and areas of responsibility
  15. 30. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government
Down
  1. 1. Rule by the people
  2. 4. President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to add new justices to the Supreme Court so that the Court would uphold his policies
  3. 7. Formal process of changing the Constitution
  4. 8. Broad coalitions of interests organized to win elections in order to enact a commonly supported set of public policies
  5. 9. Right of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal
  6. 10. Act of seceding, or formally withdrawing, from a nation-state
  7. 11. Authority of courts to declare laws passed by Congress and acts of the executive branch to be unconstitutional
  8. 13. Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated in Article I, Section 8
  9. 14. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause
  10. 16. The presidential electors, selected to represent the votes of their respective states, who meet every four years to cast the electoral votes for president and vice president
  11. 17. Makes federal law supreme over state laws
  12. 19. 1819 Supreme Court decision upholding the right of Congress to create a bank
  13. 21. View that states have strong independent authority to resist federal rule under the Constitution
  14. 23. Powers retained by the state under the Constitution
  15. 28. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by Congress. Congress can override a it by two-thirds majority in each chamber