______________ is the process through which individuals and groups reach agreement on a course of common action even as they continue to disagree on the goals of the action.
What is politics?
100
The ______ allows the executive to perform a checking function on the legislature
What is the veto?
100
When the federal government makes a ________ grant it gives an exact amount of money to spend on a specific purpose.
What is block?
100
The _________________ gave Congress the authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states
What is the commerce clause?
100
American ________________ is a two-tiered system comprised of the national government and the state governments.
What is federalism?
200
__________ include a set of rules prescribing a political process for reaching and enforcing collective agreements.
What are political institutions?
200
When Madison fashioned independent executive and judicial branches that could contain efforts by the states to subvert national policy, he was establishing __________________.
What is checks and balances?
200
In a federal system, the constitution divides authority between _____________________.
What is two or more distinct levels of government?
200
The _______________ of the Constitution declares national laws take precedence over state laws.
What is the supremacy clause?
200
The so-called ______________ of Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution provides that Congress can "make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution" the foregoing enumerated powers.
What is the "elastic clause"?
300
Successful politics almost always requires ___________ and _____________.
What is bargaining and compromise?
300
A _____________ is a highly decentralized governmental system in which the national government derives limited authority from the states rather than directly from the citizens (what the first American constitution created).
What is a confederation?
300
In _____________________, John Marshall determined the supremacy clause implicitly exempted the federal government from state taxes.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
300
The broad list of enumerated powers available to Congress in Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution includes: __________, ______________, and ______________.
What is to declare war, maintain an army and navy, and borrow money?
300
In a famous decision by Judge John F. Dillon, "Dillon's Rule" made it clear that _______________________________.
What are local governments as mere creatures of the state?
400
A ____________ creates the governing institutions and the set of rules prescribing the political process institutions must follow to reach and enforce collective agreements.
What is a constitution?
400
The centerpiece of the Virginia Plan was ______________________.
What was a bicameral national legislature?
400
The Tenth Amendment provides that _______________________________________________.
What are powers not taken by the national government belong to the states?
400
The perpetuation of the composition and selection of Congress as it functioned under the Articles of Confederation was a central feature of the ___________________ Plan.
What is New Jersey?
400
The Seventeenth Amendment, which came about amid persistent and widespread charges of bribery, mandated ______________________________.
What is direct and popular election of senators?
500
The efforts of a group to reach and implement agreements is ___________________.
What is collective action?
500
The five major failures of the Articles of Confederation were:
What is 1) no power to tax, 2) no authority to regulate commerce, 3) no executive to administer the government, 4) no judicial system to resolve disputes among the states, 5) no strong central government?
500
Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution lists the enumerated powers reserved to _______________.
What is Congress?
500
The ____________________ provides Congress with the authority to carry into execution the powers enumerated by the Constitution.
What is the necessary and proper clause?
500
Cross-cutting requirements, since the 1960s, have been widely used to enforce ____________________.