Federalism
This level of government has the most authority and power.
What is the National or Federal Government?
The three branches of Virginia State Government.
What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
Which government gets the final say in every matter (State or Local)
What is the Local Government?
Something the government CANNOT DO.
What is a denied power?
What is a Green Card?
The definition of Federalism
What is the separation of powers from multiple levels of the Government
The title of the person who carries out laws in Virginia and creates the state budget.
Who is the Governor?
The rule that says the State Government is supreme in all matters regarding Local Government.
What is Dillon's Rule?
Something the government should be able to do even if isn't written directly in the Constitution.
What is an implied power?
The philosopher that proposed splitting the government into three branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
The three levels of federal government
What is Federal/National, State, and Local?
The title of Virginia's main lawyer who defends the state
Who is the Attorney General?
Local Governments are divided into these three levels.
What are cities, counties, and towns?
The beginning of the Constitution that defines the purpose of the document.
What is the Preamble?
Which founding father refused to sign the Constitution and wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
Powers shared by the Federal and State governments that both carry out at the same time (taxes, transportation, etc.)
The name of Virginia's legislative branch and its lower and upper chambers.
What is the General Assembly, made up of The House of Delegates and the Senate
An agency created by the General Assembly that provides services in a defined area.
What is a Regional Authority?
Name one of the three Expressed Powers in the Constitution
What is raising an army, collect taxes, or regulate trade among states
A series of documents that helped gather support for the US Constitution written by Hamilton, Madison, and Jay.
The amendment that defines State's rights and creates the concept of Federalism.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
The order of courts in Virginia from lowest to highest
What is the General District Court, Circuit Court, Court of Appeals, and Supreme Court?
Counties are usually managed by this system of government.
What is a board of supervisors?
What is the Preamble, Articles, Sections, and Clauses?
What organization created charters of rights to colonists venturing to Jamestown?
What is the Virginia Company of London?