Across
- 4. Powers that the National & State governments both possess and exercise.
- 6. States and local governments can apply for these to get money from the government
- 8. Governmental powers are divided
- 10. directs people to frame a proposed state constitution
- 11. My daughter's name
- 12. My (affordable) dream car. (Hint: I keep a Hotwheels version of one on my desk.)
- 13. They wanted to limit the power of the states.
- 14. a system of government in which a written constitution divides power of the government (usually between central government and state).
- 15. Under this, Congress gave an annual share of the huge federal tax revenue to the states and their cities, counties, and townships.
Down
- 1. The Anti-Federalists believed we needed this to prevent the central government from taking rights away from the citizens.
- 2. The process of returning a fugitive from the state they fled to back to their own state.
- 3. Agreement among states to get together, kind of like an alliance or treaty.
- 5. No state can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other states.
- 7. Federalists did not want to follow this exactly and believed the central government needed more power than what was written.
- 9. They both favor checks and balances, however this group thought the states deserved more power.