POLS 1101 Chapters 2 & 3
Across
- 5. Gives congress the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, with Indian tribes, and among various states.
- 6. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by Congress.
- 10. Compromise on legislative representation whereby the lower chamber is based on population, and the upper chamber provides equal representation to the states.
- 12. Process for selecting state judges whereby the original nomination is by appointment, and subsequent retention is by a retention election.
- 13. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the regional governments.
- 15. Powers held by both the national and state governments in a federal system.
- 17. Meeting in 1787 at which twelve states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up proposing an entirely new constitution.
- 19. Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated in Article 1, Section 8.
- 23. System of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between national and state governments.
- 24. Initial governing authority of the United States
- 25. Formal process of changing the Constitution.
- 26. First ten amendments to the Constitution.
- 27. Makes federal law supreme over state laws.
- 28. Imposed taxes on almost all paper productions; boycotts and riots followed.
- 29. Required colonists to export certain items only to Britain.
Down
- 1. Five colonists killed by British soldiers; led Parliament to repeal all Townshend Act taxes except for tea tax.
- 2. Powers retained by the states under the Constitution.
- 3. The 1776 document declaring American independence from Great Britain.
- 4. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause.
- 7. 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.
- 8. Right of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal.
- 9. Rule by the people.
- 11. Colonists dump taxed tea into Boston Harbor.
- 14. System of government in which ultimate authority rests with the national government.
- 16. Form of government in which power derives from citizens, but public officials make policy and govern according to existing law.
- 18. To formally withdraw from a nation-state.
- 20. Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution.
- 21. Document that establishes the basic rules and procedures for how a society shall be governed.
- 22. Form of democracy in which political power is exercised directly by the citizens.