Across
- 2. a small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, esp. in politics.
- 3. an act of vesting the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies.
- 7. form of democracy in which power is vested in representatives
- 9. a statement of the rights of a class of people, in particular.
- 10. the power of a president, governor, or other elected executive to reject individual provisions of a bill.
- 12. an alliance for combined action
- 14. meeting of delegates in 1787 to revise the articles of confederation
- 17. power of the legislature, judicial, and executive branches to block some acts of the other two
- 18. rebellion in 1787 led by Daniel shays and others to prevent foreclosures of farms
- 19. an incorporated municipality, usually governed by a mayor and a board of aldermen or councilmen
- 22. the states'-rights doctrine that a state can refuse to recognize or to enforce a federal law passed by the United States Congress
- 26. districts a geographical unit for the local administration of schools.
- 27. is the capacity of the states to regulate behavior and enforce order within their territory for the betterment of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of their inhabitants
- 29. a series of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution.
- 33. a city, town, village, or borough that has governmental powers
- 34. the federal principle or system of government.
- 35. Dual federalism is a belief that the United States is divided into two spheres. It is believed that power is split between the federal government and each constituent state.
- 36. supreme power or authority.
Down
- 1. a political and administrative division of a state, providing certain local governmental services.
- 4. a constitution drafted by the newly independent states in 1777. Also created a weak national government that could not levy taxes or regulate commerce.
- 5. A political system in which local units of government have a specially protected existence and can make final decisions over some governmental activities
- 6. a minor change in a document.
- 8. based on nature and providence rather than on the preferences of people
- 11. review power of courts to declare acts of the legislature and the executive to be unconstitutional
- 12. grants, issued by the United States Congress, which may be spent only for narrowly-defined purposes.
- 13. The specific powers and duties of the U.S. Congress are enumerated in several places in the Constitution
- 15. The unitary system gives the main powers to the central government. State, provincial, and local governments are all created by the central goverment
- 16. people who supported Anti-Federalism which refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government
- 20. a writ ordering a prisoner to be brought before a judge
- 21. a piece of legislation enacted by a municipal authority.
- 23. A legislative act that singles out an individual or group for punishment without a trial
- 24. an organization that consists of a number of parties or groups united in an alliance or league.
- 25. the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level,
- 28. a grant from a central government that a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services.
- 29. an advocate or supporter of federalism.
- 30. a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences (or status) of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law
- 31. compromise at the constitutional convention in 1787 that reconciled the interests of small and large states
- 32. a general vote by the electorate on a single political question that has been referred to them for a direct decision.