Federalism: Powers Divided I
Those powers that both the national government and the states possess and exercise ...
Answer: concurrent powers.
Congressional act admitting a new state to the Union ...
Answer: act of admission.
Constitution’s stipulation (Article IV, Section 2) that all citizens are entitled to certain “privileges and immunities,” regardless of their state of residence; no state can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other states ...
Answer: Privileges and Immunities Clause.
A system of government in which a written constitution divides power between a central, or national, government and several regional governments ...
Answer: federalism.
Those powers, expressed, implied, or inherent, granted to the national government by the Constitution ...
Answer: delegated powers.
A congressional act directing the people of a United States territory to frame a proposed state constitution as a step towards admission to the Union ...
Answer: enabling act.
Formal agreement entered into with the consent of Congress, between or among states, or between a state and a foreign state ...
Answer: interstate compact.
Those delegated powers of the national government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the Constitution; those “necessary and proper” to carry out the expressed powers ...
Answer: implied powers.
Basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the United States, between the national government and the states) ...
Answer: division of powers.
Grants of federal money or other resources to states, cities, countries, and other local units ...
Answer: grants-in-aid program.
The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to that state ...
Answer: extradition.
Powers the Constitution is presumed to have delegated to the national government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community ...
Answer: inherent powers.
Those powers that can be exercised by the national government alone ...
Answer: exclusive powers.
One type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy ...
Answer: block grant.
Constitution’s requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state ...
Answer: Full Faith and Credit Clause.
Those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the national government and does not deny to the states ...
Answer: reserved powers.
Those delegated powers of the national government that are spelled out, expressly, in the Constitution; also called “enumerated powers” ...
Answer: expressed powers.
One type of federal grants-in-aid; made for specific projects to states, localities, and private agencies who apply for them ...
Answer: project grant.
An officially certified copy of a will so proved ...
Answer: probate.
A provision of the U.S. Constitution that states that the Constitution, federal law, and treaties of the United States are the “supreme law of the Land” ...
Answer: Supremacy Clause.