Across
- 8. Those who opposed the new proposed Constitution during the ratification period
- 9. Powers retained by the states under the Constitution
- 15. Government structure in which authority is divided among branches with each holding seperate and independent powers and areas of responsibility
- 16. Meeting in 1787 at which twelve states intended to revise the Articles of Confederation but ended up proposing an entirely new Constitution
- 18. Form of democracy in which political power is excerised directly by citizens
- 21. Powers expressly granted to Congress by the Constitution
- 24. Gives Congrress the power to tax to provide for the general welfare
- 26. The 1776 document declaring American independence from Great Britain and calling for equality, human rights, and citizen participation
- 28. Gives Congress the power to regulate commerce with foregin nations
- 29. Form of government in which power derives from citizens but public officals make policy and govern according to existing law
- 31. Authority of courts to declare laws passed by congress and acts of the executive branch to be unconstitutional
Down
- 1. First ten amendments to the Constitution which provide basic political rights
- 2. Process for selecting state judges whereby the original nomination is by appointment, and subsequent retention is by a retention election
- 3. Systems of government in which ultimate authority rests in the national government
- 4. Compromise on legislative representation whereby the lower chamber is based on population and the upper chamber provides equal representation to the states
- 5. Formal process of changing the Constitution
- 6. System of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between national and state governments
- 7. Authority of the president to block legislation passed by congress.
- 10. Gives Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper to the powers enumerated
- 11. Required states to return runaway slaves, 13th Amendment
- 12. Powers not expressly granted to Congress but added through the necessary and proper clause
- 13. Government structure that authorizes each branch of the government to share powers with other branches and can take control over the other branches
- 14. Initial governing authority of the United States, 1781- 1788
- 17. Makes federal law supreme over state laws
- 19. Powers held by both the national and state govenments in a federal system
- 20. Doctrine holding that state govenments and the federal government have almost completly seperate functions
- 22. Document or set of documents that establish the basic rules and procedures for how a society shall be governed
- 23. The presidential electors selected to represent the voters of their respective states to cast electoral votes for president and vice president
- 25. States have strong independent authority to resist federal rules under the Consitution
- 27. Rights of states to invalidate acts of Congress they believe to be illegal
- 30. Supports of the Consitution during the raficiation period and later the political party established by Alexander Hamilton