CLAUSES
Gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.
What is Commerce Clause?
The procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office
What is recall?
The Constitution’s “necessary and proper” clause permits Congress to take actions (in this case, to create a national bank) when it is essential to a power that Congress has.
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Powers the constitution denies to the national government
What are denied powers?
government authority is shared by both national and local governments, both the national and local governments act directly upon the citizens and they both must agree to constitutional changes.
What is Federalism?
States have to respect "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state."
What is Full Faith and Credit Clause?
State power to enact laws promoting health, safety, and morals
What is police power?
The Constitution allows a local government to seize property, not only for “public use” such as building highways, but also to “promote economic development” in a “distressed” community.
What is Kelo v. City of New London?
Powers and authority possessed by both state and national governments
What are concurrent powers?
federal government is more powerful than the state government
What is the Unitary System?
constitution and laws under it constitute the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
Doctrine holding that the national government is supreme in its sphere, states are supreme in theirs, and the two spheres should be kept separate.
What is dual federalism?
The Constitution's commerce clause gives the national government exclusive power to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Gibbons v. Ogden?
Powers of congress that are explicitly stated in the constitution
What are enumerated powers?
State government is more powerful than the federal government
What is the Confederal System?
Prevents state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner.
What is Privileges and Immunities clause?
The process that permits voters to put legislative measures directly on a ballot
What is initiative?
The national government’s power to regulate interstate commerce does not extend to giving female victims of violence the right to sure perpetrators in federal court.
What is United States v. Morrison?
Powers that aren’t explicitly stated for the state
What are reserved powers?
All levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and programs and are mixed sharing authority
What is marble cake federalism?
one of the powers of Congress that allows them to make any laws that are needed for carrying out their other powers. AKA the Necessary and Proper Clause
What is the Elastic Clause?
the procedure enabling voters to reject the measure passed by the legislature
What is referendum?
The national government’s power under the commerce clause does not permit it to regulate matters not directly related to interstate commerce.
What is United States v. Lopez?
Powers exercised by congress which are not explicitly stated in the constitution but are necessary to execute the powers with are explicitly stated
What are implied powers?
Federal grants for specific purposes defined by federal law, such as building an airport
What are categorical grants?