GOV'T CROSSWORD 2
Across
- 1. a provision of the U.S constitution that states that the constitution, federal law, and treaties of the United States are the "supreme Law of Land"
- 4. group of people chosen in each state and district of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the president and vice president
- 6. congressional act admitting a new state to the Union
- 7. those powers, expressed, implied,or inherent granted to the national government by the constitution
- 10. those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not deny to the States
- 11. those delegated powers of the national government that are spelled out, expressly, in the constitution
- 12. a change in or addition to the constitution or law
- 14. those delegated powers of the national government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the constitution; those "necessary and proper" to carry out the expressed powers
- 15. formal agreement entered into with the consent of congress, between or among states, or between a state and a foreign state
- 18. the legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to that state
Down
- 2. a pact made by the president directly with the head of a foreign state;a binding international agreement with the force of law but which does not require senate consent
- 3. first 10 amendments to the constitution
- 5. those powers that both the national government and the states possess and exercise
- 8. those powers which can be exercised by the National Government alone
- 9. a formal agreement between two or more sovereign states
- 13. powers the constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community
- 16. a congressional act directing the people of a United States territory to frame a proposed State constitution as a step toward admission to the Union
- 17. formal approval or final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty