Unstoppable Powers!
Vocabulary!
National, Concurrent, or State
Who you gonna call?
Civil Matters
100

This type of power belongs to a central government because it is a central government of a sovereign state.

What are inherent powers?

100

The institution through which society makes and enforces public policies.

What is Government?

100

Declare War.

What is National?

100

Someone breaks into a house.

Who are the police?

100

The clause that forces states to recognize drivers licenses from other states.

What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
200

Powers that can only be exercised by the central government.

What are Exclusive Powers?

200

The assignment of certain powers to the central government and reserving others for the states.

What is Division of Powers?

200

Conduct Elections.

What is state?

200

Mexico invades California.

Who are the Armed Forces?

200

Elizabeth Warren suggested a wealth tax at this percent in order to deal with the problem of income inequality for the naiton.

What is 3%?

300

The central government has only the powers given to it by the constitution.

What are Delegated Powers?

300

A system of government in which a written constitution divides the powers of government on a territorial basis between the central and regional governments.

What is Federalism?

300

Establish Public Schools.

What is State?

300

A politician is taking bribes from a corporation to vote a certain way.

Who is the FBI?

300

This congress woman suggested a 90% federal income tax on people making over $10,000,000.

Who is Alexandria Ocasio Cortes?

400

Powers not mentioned in the constitution but reasonably suggested.  

What are Implied Powers?

400

Specifically spelled out powers given to the central government?

What are Expressed Powers?


400

Coin Money.

What is National?

400

There is a riot in downtown Los Angeles.

Who is the National Guard?

400

The Clause that made the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court Decision protect abortion rights for all women in the Untied States.

What is the Supremacy Clause?

500

Powers both the central and local governments have.

What are Concurrent powers?

500

Laws and treaties made by the government shall be the rule of the land, and judges are bound to them.

What is the Supremacy Clause?

500

Levy and collect taxes.

What is Concurrent?

500

A deranged person has taken three people hostage at the local YMCA.

What is SWAT or Special Weapons and Tactics?

500

This family made their wealth by developing a new process for refining oil and  lobbied Congress in order to lower the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.

Who is the Koch Family?

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