Chapter 2 Definitions - American Gov

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Across
  1. 2. a highly decentralized form of government; sovereign states form a union for purposes such as mutual defense
  2. 4. a form of government where power is divided between state gov. and a national gov.
  3. 6. a legislature with only one house, like the Confederation Congress or the legislature proposed by the New Jersey Plan.
  4. 7. a system that allows one branch of government to limit exercising the power by another branch; requires different parts of gov. to work together
  5. 11. the powers given explicitly to the federal government by the Constitution
  6. 13. powers not prohibited by the constitution or delegated to the national gov; powers reserved to the states and denied to the federal gov
  7. 15. a compromise between the Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan that created a two House Congress; representation is based on population in the House of Representatives and equal representation of states in the Senate.
  8. 16. the right to life liberty and property; believed to be given by God; no government may take away
  9. 17. a document written in 1776 in which the American colonists proclaimed their independence from Great Britain and listed their grievances against the British king - King George III
Down
  1. 1. a compromise btw northern + southern states that called for counting of all states free population and 60 percent of its slave population for both fed taxation and representation in Congress
  2. 3. a form of government in which political power lies in the hands of the people, not a monarch, and is exercised by elected officials
  3. 5. the first basis for the nation's government, adopted in 1781; created an alliance of sovereign states held together by a weak central government
  4. 8. an agreement between people and government in which citizens consent to be governed so long as the government protects their natural rights
  5. 9. a plan that called for a one house national legislature; each state receives one vote
  6. 10. the sharing of powers among three separate branches of gov
  7. 12. statement in Article 6 of the Constitution; that fed law is superior to laws passed by state legislature.
  8. 14. a legislature with two houses such as the US Congress