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- 1. sent troops to Detroit to help control racial unrest and rioting
- 3. sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957
- 5. he people, not the states, created the national government and that its power should be expanded to carry out the people's will.
- 7. a contractual arrangement made between two or more states in which the assigned parties agree on a specific policy issue
- 8. last two states to be admitted
- 11. political powers granted to the United States government that aren't explicitly stated in the Constitution
- 13. tax levied by a government directly on income
- 15. those powers of the President of the United States and Congress that are not explicitly specified in the Constitution.
- 16. a statute empowering a person or body to take certain action
- 18. used troops at the University of Mississippi in 1962 and the University of Alabama in 1963.
- 19. rejected statehood by a vote in 1993.
- 20. was admitted in 1907
- 22. specifically granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution
- 23. the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.
- 24. a law requiring certain proceedings of government agencies to be open or available to the public.
- 25. won independence from Mexico and sought annexation to the United States for several years before being admitted.
- 26. It establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
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- 2. hand over to the jurisdiction of the foreign state in which the crime was committed.
- 4. a statement in the U.S. Constitution granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers.
- 6. favors state and local action in dealing with social and economic problems.
- 9. powers of a federal state that are shared by both the federal government and each constituent political unit
- 10. a law that automatically terminates an agency, a law, or a government program
- 12. those powers granted to the national government under the United States Constitution
- 14. political power reserved by a constitution to the exclusive jurisdiction of a specified political authority.
- 17. a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials
- 21. once it was admitted as a state, it promptly amended its constitution to restore provisions about the recall of judges that Taft had requested be deleted