Powers
This is the general name for powers that are given to Congress in the Constitution.
Sometimes called the Elastic Clause, this clause provides broad powers to the federal government.
The Necessary and Proper Clause
This type of grant is the most specific. The money can only be spent on exactly what the grant allows.
Categorical Grant
This case dealt with the question of taxing and a national bank. It established that states cannot tax the federal government, using the Supremacy Clause as its justification.
McCulloch v. Maryland
This describes a division of power between a central government and local ones.
Federalism
These powers are explicitly stated in the Constitution.
Expressed Powers
This clause essentially says that federal law and interests supersedes those of the states.
Supremacy Clause
This type of grant is more general. Money can be spent on anything that falls within a certain category.
Block Grant
This case dealt with steamboat ferries across the Hudson River. It greatly expanded the Commerce Power of Congress.
Gibbons v. Ogden
This is an agreement between two or more states.
Interstate Compact
These powers are understood to be available to the federal government because governments in the past have exercised them.
Inherent Powers
Full Faith and Credit Clause
Grants began to be used much more during his presidency.
Franklin Roosevelt
This case dealt with guns in schools, and it lessened the Commerce Power of Congress.
US v. Lopez
This describes when a person commits a crime in one state, flees to another, and is brought back to the original state to face trial for the crime.
Extradition
These powers are suggested from expressed powers, and they get their authority from the Necessary and Proper Clause.
Implied Powers
This clause says that states cannot unreasonably discriminate against residents of other states.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
What is the main Constitutional problem with grants.
This case allowed for legal segregation in the South.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Which type of government provides authority to local governments?
State Governments
These are powers given to the states because they are not given to the federal government.
Reserved Powers
Commerce Clause
Provide one example of how grants allow the federal government more authority that the Constitution gives it.
Multiple Answers
This case overturned the "separate, but equal doctrine" in Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
This allows for some laws to be different among states.
Federalism