The American Political System: the Constitution and Federalism

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Across
  1. 1. A type of grant provided to lower-level governments with considerable freedom on deciding how the money is spent.
  2. 3. A political system with multiple levels of government in which each level has independent authority over some important policy area.
  3. 5. A type of grant that narrowly defines how the money is to be spent by the lower-level governments.
  4. 7. A compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention, establishing a bicameral legislature with equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives.
  5. 9. The first ten amendments to the Constitution, which enumerate a set of individual liberties and rights protected.
  6. 10. An election in which citizens vote directly on whether to overturn a bill or a constitutional amendment that has been passed by the legislature.
  7. 11. A plan named after a state, proposed at the Constitutional Convention by William Paterson to amend the Articles of Confederation.
  8. 12. A form of federalism in which each level of government, national and state, is sovereign in its own sphere of policy authority.
  9. 14. Those who favored adopting the Constitution as written because of the need for a strong national government.
  10. 16. A plan named after a state, proposed at the Constitutional Convention by Edmund Randolph outlining a stronger national government.
  11. 17. A form of federalism in which both levels of government, national and state, are active in nearly all areas of policy and share sovereign authority.
  12. 18. Powers specifically stated in the Constitution.
Down
  1. 2. A political system with multiple levels of government in which lower-level governments retain full sovereignty and cannot be compelled by the national government to act.
  2. 4. The constitution drafted by the Second Continental Congress, ratified in 1781, which set up a weak central government.
  3. 6. Those who opposed adopting the Constitution as written because they feared a strong national government.
  4. 8. A system in which multiple levels of government are active in a given policy area.
  5. 13. Powers not granted to the national government by the Constitution, and therefore are reserved to the states.
  6. 15. A constitutional or legal authority held by local governments that allows them to govern themselves with little or no interference from the state.