Across
- 9. Grants of money from the federal government to states for programs in certain general areas rather than pacific kinds of programs
- 10. Laws passed enforced by city government
- 12. A list of individual rights and liberties, such as freedom of speech , religion, and the press
- 13. constitutional authority is shared by three separate branches of government(the legislative, the executive, and the judicial)
- 15. An alliance among different interest group, faction, or parties to achieve some political goal
- 16. Allows voters to place legislative measures directly on the ballot by getting enough signatures on a petition
- 17. supportersof a stronger central government who advocated ratification of the Constitution
- 18. A law providing for the distribution of a fixed amount or share of federal tax revenues to the states for spending on almost any government purpose
- 21. Special-district government responsible for administering public schools
- 22. system of government in which power is centralized in the national government; regional governments only exercise powers given by national government
- 24. A theory that the states had the right to nullify a federal law, that, in the states' opinion, violated the Constitution
- 25. though the national government was supreme in its sphere, the states were equally supreme in theirs, and that these two spheres of action should and could be kept separate
- 27. human right based on nature or God
- 28. Tells the state government what it must do, period
Down
- 1. Plan to have a popularly elected House based on state population and a state-selected Senate, with two new members for each state.
- 2. The effort to devolve onto the states the national government's functions in areas such as welfare, health care, and job training
- 3. power of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government to block some acts by the other two branches
- 4. group with a distinct political interest
- 5. A procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office
- 6. local units of government have a specially protected existence and can make some final decisions over some governmental activities
- 7. Largest territorial units between a state or a city or a town
- 8. of political organization in which government power is divided between a central government and territorial subdivisions
- 11. Supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries
- 14. opponents of a strong central government against the ratification of the constitution
- 19. The power of the courts to declare laws unconstitutional
- 20. Changes in or addition to the U.S Constitution
- 23. Process in which a measure passed by a legislature is submitted to the voters for final approval or rejection
- 26. Municipal corp. that has been chartered by a state to exercise certain defined powers and provide specific services