Chapter 4: The Federal System Vocabulary Review

The _____________ ________ is the first step in the state admission procedure, which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution.

The ________________ _____________ is the statement in Article VI of the Constitution establishing that the Constitution laws passed by Congress, and treaties of the United States “shall be the supreme Law of the Land”.

The ___________ ___________ is the clause in Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution that gives Congress the right to make all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out the powers expressed in the other clauses of Article I.

Powers the Constitution grants or delegates to the national government are called __________ _________.

Powers directly stated in the Constitution are called ________ _________.

Powers the national government may exercise because its a government are called _______ ________.

Powers that belong strictly to the states are called _________ _______.

Powers that both the national government and the states have are called _________ ________.

Powers the government requires to carry out its expressed constitutional powers are called __________ _________.

__________ ____________ is one relating to disputes among two or more individuals or between individuals and the government.