Across
- 2. trading votes to gain support for a bill
- 5. Two-House legislature
- 6. Essay, primarily concerned with factions, argues that in a large republic factions would need to compromise to achieve their goals
- 11. Last name of the president who signed the Welfare Reform Act into law
- 12. Legislative attempt to limit the power of the president during wartime
- 13. Place in the Constitution that discusses the Judicial Branch
- 16. primary concern of Federalist 51
- 18. Term that means states are to return fugitives (or runaway slaves) to states were the crime was committed
- 20. Right claimed by states who attempted to declare federal law null and void
- 21. Defined as one who claims that the Constitution should be interpreted literally
- 26. Before the Constitution could become the law of the land, states had to complete this process.
- 29. Clause that is at the core of the US v. Lopez case
- 31. Powers not specifically listed in the Constitution but deriving from the elastic clause
- 32. Amendment III states that the government could not do this(hint: Housing Soldiers)
- 34. the way House members can get a bill stalled in committee onto the floor for a vote
- 37. Known as the "reserved powers Amendment"
- 38. Opposed a strong central government
- 40. Those on the Supreme Court who disagree with the Majority write one of these.
- 42. non-germane amendments to a bill
- 43. Distribution of representatives following a census
- 45. Madison's work, which became the agenda at the Constitutional Convention
- 47. The most powerful person in Congress
- 48. Sharing power between states and a central authority
- 49. Primary presidential concern of the 25th Amendment
- 50. The strings attached to categorical grants
Down
- 1. Decides the presidential election
- 3. established a two-house legislature where one house would be based on population and the other would be based on equal representation
- 4. The 17th Amendment allows us to directly elect these people
- 7. The nickname of the Affordable Care Act
- 8. One of the authors of the Federalist papers and first Supreme Court Chief Justice
- 9. After 9/11 the president signed this bill into law that significantly hindered civil liberties
- 10. If the president sets a bill aside and Congress adjourns before the bill is signed
- 14. A federal directive that states must comply with
- 15. Term used to describe the flow of money to interest groups, states, and local governments
- 17. Also known as Rule 22, it can stop a filibuster
- 19. Member in the House who is in charge of party discipline.
- 22. Powers held by both states and federal government
- 23. Balanced North/South population in the House of Representatives during the Constitutional Convention
- 24. System of government prior to the Constitution that gave states all of the power
- 25. The House can vote to start a trial of the president. This is called:
- 27. Place in the Constitution that discusses the Legislative Branch
- 28. giving more power to the states
- 30. Joint committee where members resolve differences in a bill
- 33. Acronym for the most costly of the unfunded mandates
- 35. Last name of the president who interned Americans during WWII
- 36. the 16th Amendment allowed the Federal government to collect this
- 39. the name for stalling action on a bill in the Senate by talking
- 41. Author of the Declaration of Independence
- 44. Father of the Constitution
- 46. Opening of the Constitution... starts with "We the people"