Unit 3: Federalism

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Across
  1. 7. Authorizes Congress to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out the enumerated powers.
  2. 9. Categorical Grants distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or in administrative regulation. ie:Medicaid
  3. 10. Powers of the Federal government that are specifically stated in the Constitution.
  4. 11. Grants given morre-or-less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs such as community developement or social services.
  5. 12. Requirements that direct local or state governments to provide additional services under threat of penalties or as a condition of reciept of a federal grant. Usually unfunded. ie:Medicaid expanded to cover more people; Americans with Disabilities: Equal access to those with disabilities; No Child Left Behind: Schools must improve student attendance.
  6. 13. Article 6 clause that makes the Constitution the supreme law of the land.
  7. 15. The powers not given to the Federal government by the Constitution are given to the states or the people.
  8. 17. Article 4 clause requiring each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
Down
  1. 1. Accords all citizens of each state the privilages of citizens of other states.
  2. 2. Federal Categorical Grants given for specific purposes and awarded on the basis of the merits of application.
  3. 3. The Constitution gave Congress the right to regulate interstate commerce as encompassing virtually every form of commercial activity.
  4. 4. The pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system; it is the cornerstone of the national governments relations with the state and local governments.
  5. 5. Something for everybody
  6. 6. Established supremacy of national government over state government.
  7. 8. A way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government have formal authority over the same land and people.
  8. 14. Bothe the state government and the national government reign supreme in their own spheres.
  9. 16. Federal grants that can only be used for specific reasons or 'categories' of state and local spendinng.