Power
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Types of Govt
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100

These are powers explicitly stated in the Constitution.

What are enumerated powers?

100

This chamber of Congress has the sole responsibility of initiating bills for taxing and spending.

What is the US House of Representatives?

100

Even though Lopez (in US v. Lopez) brought a firearm to school, his lawyer never argued that he had a right to it under this Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

What is the Second Amendment?

100
In this type of government, power resides entirely with regional or state governments, and the central authority has only powers explicitly granted by them.

What is a confederation?

100

Of the two types of spending, this one is not discretionary. 

What is non-discretionary?

200

These are powers that are implicit and not explicitly stated in the Constitution.

What are implied powers?

200

In contrast to fiscal policy, this type of policy is concerned with items like printed money in circulation and strength of currency.

What is monetary policy?

200

John Marshall decided not to hear the case Marbury v. Madison, because of this term in the Constitution.

What is original jurisdiction?

200

In this type of government, power is divided equally and constitutionally between a central government and independent regional states.

What is a federation?

200

This type of grant-in-aid is for a specific need or purpose, like education or transportation, for instance.

What are category grants?

300

These are powers shared by the states and federal government.

What are concurrent powers?

300

This authority gives Congress the ability to regulate interstate business transactions.

What is the commerce clause?

300

In US v. Lopez, it appears that the US government overreached with the GFSZ Act using this clause.

What is the commerce clause?

300

This type of federalism contains clear lines of authority and emphasizes the Tenth Amendment as reserved for the states. 

What is dual federalism?

300

This type of grant-in-aid is distributed based on a set of criteria like cost of living or population density.

What are formula grants?

400

These powers are outlined in Amendment Ⅹ.

What are reserved powers?

400

This synonym of the elastic clause gives Congress the authority to make laws and carry out its granted powers.

What is the necessary and proper clause?

400

The case McCulloch v. Maryland was decided using this clause, which also is one of the Articles of the Constitution.

What is the supremacy clause in Article 6?

400

This type of federalism involves shared policy responsibilities, intertwined funding, and collaboration between national and state governments.

What is cooperative federalism?

400

This type of grant-in-aid states prefer because there is little to no oversight.

What are block grants?

500

Among powers denied to the states, like entering in treaties, taxing imports/exports, declaring war, is this.

What is print money?

500

I am a grant-in-aid that is discretionary at the state level, but non-discretionary at the federal level.

What is a block grant?

500

Marbury v. Madison established judicial review, with the judicial branch giving themselves this type of power.

What is implied power?

500
In this type of government, power is concentrated primarily in a central national government, which may delegate authority to subnational units but retains ultimate sovereignty.

What is a unitary system?

500
This type of grant-in-aid is the only form of discretionary spending at the federal level.

What are project grants?