Across
- 3. an adjective describing a legislative body composed of two chambers
- 4. basic principle of federalism
- 9. 4th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court
- 10. system of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each to check the actions of others
- 11. grants of federal money or other resources to states, cities, counties, and other local units
- 12. one type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly define area of public policy
- 14. a provision of the US constitution that states that the Constitution, federal law, and treaties of the United States are the "Supreme Law of the Land"
- 15. Constitution's requirements that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
- 16. the legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to that state
- 19. Those powers that the constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not deny to the states
- 20. A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national, government and several regional government like states
Down
- 1. formal approval or final consent to the effectiveness of a constitution, constitutional amendment, or treaty
- 2. those persons who opposed the ratification of the constitution in 1787-1788
- 5. the first ten amendments to the constitution
- 6. Those persons who supported the ratification of the constitution in 1787-1788
- 7. those delegated powers of the National Government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the constitution
- 8. Plan of government adopted by the continental congress after the American Revolution
- 13. basic principle of American government, which states that government is restricted in what it may do and each individual has rights that government cannot take away
- 17. A formal agreement
- 18. a change in, or addition to a constitution