T3: The Constitution

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Across
  1. 2. Powers for the national gov. only
  2. 4. Type of constitutional change through legislation, executive action, court decisions, parties, or tradition
  3. 5. Our nation's supreme law
  4. 7. based on a state's population
  5. 10. System of restraints on the branches
  6. 11. Powers not specifically mentioned in Constitution, but assumed
  7. 12. The introduction to the Constitution
  8. 15. proposes new amendments
  9. 17. government may only do those things that the people have given it the power to do
  10. 19. Powers kept by the states, not the national gov.
  11. 22. There are two for each state in the union
  12. 23. The people are the only source for any and all governmental power
  13. 24. additions to the Constitution beginning in 1791
  14. 25. System of gov. where power is split between national and local levels
  15. 26. Power distributed between branches
Down
  1. 1. The branch Article I creates
  2. 3. Powers shared by state and national gov.
  3. 6. The branch Article III creates
  4. 8. The branch Article II creates
  5. 9. 2/3s of these needed to ratify new amendments
  6. 13. Legislation explaining how new states would be admitted to U.S.
  7. 14. Established by Marbury v. Madison
  8. 16. Power given by the Constitution
  9. 18. Powers written specifically in the Constitution
  10. 20. Powers all sovereign nations have
  11. 21. original section of the Constitution, there are 7 of them