FEDERALISM:
THE BASICS & HISTORY I
THE BASICS & HISTORY I
Federalism is a system of government where power is divided between the ______ and ______ governments.
What is national and state?
In a federal government, the _______ handle some things while the _______ government handles most other things.
What are states?
What is the national?
Powers that are specifically given to the national government in the Constitution are called ______.
What are delegated powers?
The relationship between the federal government and the states can best be compared to the relationship between a _______ and a ______.
What are a parent and a child?
______ grants are given for broad purposes with more flexibility for states to decide how the money will be spent.
BONUS: Give one example of this type of grant.
What are Block?
BONUS: Answers will vary
In a ______ system, the national government has nearly all the power, while the ______ governments have very little authority.
What is unitary?
What is local/state?
One benefit of federalism is that it allows ______ solutions for ______ problems. Provide one example.
What is local? (2x)
Example: Answers will vary.
The Constitution bans both the state and federal governments from doing certain things. These are called ______ powers.
BONUS: What is an ex post facto law?
What are denied?
What is a law that makes something illegal that was legal when done?
The ______ ______ states that the Constitution and federal laws are the highest authority in the U.S.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
______ grants are given for specific purposes with strict requirements on how the _____ may spend the money.
BONUS: Give one example of this type of grant.
What are categorical?
What are states?
BONUS: Answers will vary.
In a ______, the _____ or regions have most of the power, and the _____ government is very weak.
What is a confederation?
What are states?
What is the central/national?
Other benefits of federalism include ________ with new ideas and having _______ support. Provide one example of each.
What is experimenting?
What is collective?
Examples: Answers will vary.
Powers that are shared by both the national and state governments are called ______ powers.
What are concurrent?
The ______ _______ decides if state and federal laws violate the _________.
What is the Supreme Court?
What is the Constitution?
The process of returning a _____ to the _____ where they originally committed a crime is called ______.
What is a fugitive?
What is a state?
What is extradition?
The U.S. Constitution does not include the words ______ or ______, but it structures the government in this way.
What is federal?
What is federalism?
Two major costs (drawbacks) of federalism are limited ________ _______ and conflicts of _______. Provide one example of each.
What is national cohesion?
What is authority?
Examples: Answers will vary.
Powers that are not given to the federal government and left to the states are called ______ powers.
What are reserved?
Kyllo v. United States (2001) was found by the _______ _______ to violate the Constitution's ____ amendment protection against illegal ______ and ______.
What is the Supreme Court?
What is the Fourth?
What is search? What is seizure?
The ______ and _______ Clause prevents _____ from unfairly ______ against citizens of other states.
What are Privileges and Immunities?
What are states?
What is discriminating?
Most nations that use ________, like ______, _______, and _______, are ______ in size and population.
BONUS: Name two additional nations.
What is federalism?
What are Canada, Russia, Australia, India and/or Brazil? (Choose any three)
What is larger?
Beginning in 1787, in _________ , the Framers created _______ because they still wanted to preserve the state's _________ freedoms while preventing the new ________ government from abusing its power.
BONUS: Name the "Father of the Constitution".
Where is Philadelphia?
What is federalism?
What are individual?
What is federal/national?
BONUS: Who was James Madison?
The _____ amendment guarantees that any power not given to the ________ nor denied to the _______, are reserved for the ________respectively or the ______.
What is the 10th?
What is the federal government?
What are the states?
What are the states? What are the people?
T-Mobile v. Roswell (2014) was found by the _______ _________ to violate the __________ Clause as the city's action violated a _______ law.
What is the Supreme Court?
What is Supremacy?
What is federal?
The ______ & ______ Clause requires ______ to recognize each other’s legal _______, such as marriage ______ and court ______.
What is Full Faith & Credit?
What are states?
What are documents?
What licenses? What are rulings?