Partitions of Power
A system of governmental power that is divided into two or more levels.
What is federalism?
Requires states to acknowledge one another's public acts, records, and judicial rulings?
What is the full faith and credit clause
Per Article IV, this is obligated to protect the states from foreign invasion and suppress, if necessary, domestic violence.
What is the National (Federal) Government?
Federal programs granting monies for specific purposes within state and local governments.
What are categorical grants?
Allocates portions of the national government's tax revenues to the states; returning policy control to the states and reducing federal intervention.
What is revenue sharing?
Powers specifically given to the national government by the U.S. Constitution that defines limits of its authority.
What are delegated powers?
This economic program was associated with the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt.
What was the New Deal?
What is the 10th Amendment?
Categorical grants that are governed by demographic formulas, such as unemployment figures, in a given area.
What are formula grants?
This form of government tends to check tyranny and dictatorships.
What is federalism?
Who said, "In America the legislature of each state is supreme, nothing can impede its authority."?
Who was Alexis de Tocqueville?
Before 1913, Senators were elected by whom?
This amendment established a federal income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Categorical grants that allow the national government great discretion in deciding how much aid will be given to a project.
What are project grants?
This president was considered a strict constructionist?
Who was James Madison?
Powers specifically granted by the Constitution.
What are enumerated powers?
Who was Robert E. Lee?
A system in which the national and state levels are sovereign within their own spheres.
What is dual federalism?
Federal programs that dispense monies to state and local governments; used as a key force in implementing national policies.
What are grants-in-aid?
The Necessary and Proper Clause is sometimes referred to as this clause.
What is the elastic clause?
Derived from enumerated powers.
What are implied powers?
Before this amendment in 1865, identifying with one's state was often more important than national identity.
What was the Seventeenth Amendment?
Who said, "I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group: We the People."
Who is President Ronald Reagan?
Federal grants-in-aid that combine several categorical grants under a general umbrella to simplify the use of funds in local governments
What are block grants?
What are the reserved powers?