Powers
powers Congress exercises that the Constitution does not explicitly define, but are necessary and proper to execute the powers.
What are implied powers?
an agreement that large and small states reached during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that in part defined the legislative structure and representation that each state would have under the United States Constitution.
What is the Great Compromise?
Establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
What is the national supremacy clause?
A form of federalism in which states compete to attract businesses and jobs through the policies they adopt.
What is Competitive Federalism?
A centralized government in which all government powers belong to a single, central agency.
What is a Unitary Government?
state power to effect laws promoting health, safety, and morals
What are Police Powers?
original constitution of the US, ratified in 1781, which was replaced by the US Constitution in 1789.
What are the Articles of Confederation?
the clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that empowers the Congress to make all laws necessary for executing its other powers and those of the federal government as a whole.
What is necessary and proper clause?
A system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states and the national government. They may also share costs, administration, and even blame for programs that work poorly.
What is Cooperative Federalism?
a form of government in which states hold power over a limited national government
What is a Confederal Government?
Powers held jointly by the national and state governments.
What are concurrent powers?
an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts in opposition to a debt crisis among the citizenry and the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes both on individuals and their trades
What is Shay’s Rebellion?
Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
A system of government in which both the states and the national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies.
What is Dual Federalism?
the concept of a government that doesn't have much power. It is a key concept in the history of liberalism.
What is a limited government?
the supreme power of an independent state to regulate its internal affairs without foreign interference
What is Sovereign Power?
“The Commerce Clause of the Constitution does not give Congress the power to prohibit mere possession of a gun near a school, because gun possession by itself is not an economic activity that affects interstate commerce even indirectly.”
What is United States v. Lopez?
Powers that are vested to the president of the United States.
What is the executive powers clause?
The pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system; it is the cornerstone of the national government's relations with state and local governments.
What is a Fiscal Federalism?
an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
What is a social contract?
The powers of the federal government that are specifically described in the Constitution are sometimes called 'delegated' or 'expressed powers'
What are enumerated powers?
Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law.
What is the McCulloch v. Maryland?
gives Congress the power “to regulate with foreign nations, and among the several states”
What is the commerce clause?
A more refined and realistic form of cooperative federalism in which policy makers within a particular policy area work together across the levels of government.
What is Picket Fence Federalism?
the idea that a government's legitimacy and moral right to use state power is only justified and lawful when consented to by the people or society over which that political power is exercised.
What is “consent of the governed”?