Across
- 5. gives Congress the authority to make laws about economic activity that crosses state lines, or that may affect the interstate economy. Source of authority for many modern laws.
- 6. a system of taxing and spending within the federal system (usually it’s the national government providing money to states with some instructions on how to spend it)
- 8. both the national government and state governments may do these
- 10. the old idea that the national and state governments were equal authorities
- 12. what the constitution explicitly says Congress can do
- 13. money and other resources given to states to spend on state and local activities, like when the national government gave states land which states sold to fund public universities
Down
- 1. says that one state must recognize and honor the official acts of other states, like marriages or criminal convictions
- 2. greatly expanded the role of the national government, trying to improve people’s social and economic welfare during the Great Depression of the 1930s
- 3. a state separating itself from the USA
- 4. demands on states to carry out specific policies (usually, but not always, with money provided by the national government)
- 7. not mentioned specifically in the constitution, these may be done by states because the constitution neither assigns them to the national government nor prohibits them to states
- 9. the national government has these under the Necessary and Proper Clause because they’re logical extensions of expressed powers
- 11. returning power from the national government to states