Across
- 3. Formal approval,final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty.
- 4. The first ten amendments to the constitution
- 6. Basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis.
- 8. Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of the law; see limited government
- 10. A congressional act directing the people of a United States territory to fame a purposed state constitution as a step towards admission to a union
- 12. Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone.
- 14. presidential advisory body, traditionally made up of the heads of the executive departments and other officers
- 15. Those persons who supported the ratification of the constitution in 1787-1788
Down
- 1. A formal agreement between two or more sovereign states.
- 2. The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to the state
- 5. A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central or national government and several regional governments.
- 7. Those persons who opposed the ratifcation of the constitution in 1787-1788
- 9. A change in, or addition to, a constitution or law.
- 11. Group of persons chosen in each state and the district of Columbia every 4 years who make a formal selection of the president and vice president
- 13. cheif executiveś power to reject a bill passed by a legislature