A political organization in which all the power resides in the central government. An example could be a monarchy.
What is a unitary system?
100
It is also referred to as layer cake.
What is dual federalism?
100
It is the document that clearly establish our governmental organization as a federalism trough a vertical and horizontal checks and balance.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
100
It describes the relationship between the national, states and local level.
What is intergovernmental relations?
100
The year that the Amendment stating the principle of federalism was ratified.
What is 1791? (10th Amendment)
200
A form of governmental organization where the power resides in the sub-governmental units. A great example could be the European Union.
What is a confederation?
200
It is said to have clear delineation of authority and programs among the different levels of government.
What is dual federalism?
200
It guarantees a national unity and establishes the federal government as a third neutral party. It can be found in article IV of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
200
It is the money paid from one level of government to another.
What is grants-in-aid?
200
Powers denied to the state and the national government.
What is prohibited government?
300
A form of governmental organization where there is a unitary system, a confederacy, and power is shared between national and state government.
What is federalism?
300
There is mix and interrelated line of authority and jurisdiction in this type of federalism.
What is cooperative federalism or marble cake?
300
Powers that are specifically granted and can be found explicitly written.
What is enumerated powers?
300
It is the number that is said to account for cities, counties, municipalities, school districts and special districts in the state of Texas.
What is 4836 or 4800 governments in Texas?
300
Powers that can be extracted from the context of the clause and have allowed for the expansion of governmental powers.
What is implied powers (also know as the necessary and proper or elastic clause)?
400
Established the benefits of federalism as where there could be a strong central authority and strong state authority in the Federalists Papers.
Who is James Madison?
400
Political Scientist that introduce the pastry metaphors to explain the development of federalism.
Who is Morton Grodzin?
400
States that those powers not delegated to the National government, nor prohibited to the states are reserved to the states or the people.
What is the 10th Amendment?
400
It represents the latest transformation of federalism where the mixing of authority may result in an automatic national authority growth and expansion to sustain national union.
What is Too Big to Fail?
400
Grants-in-aid have evolved with federalism into something complex. These type emerged with New Federalism to give more power to the states but also resulted in economic burden to the states.
What is federal mandates?
500
It is noted in Federalist Paper number 10 that these can be positive, to offer division of power, and negative, because it could lead to rise of extreme points of view.
What is factions?
500
This is how Terry Sandford described federalism.
What is picket fence federalism?
500
These powers include power to tax, limited power to police, the power to make laws and enforce laws, and to establish courts.
What is Concurrent powers?
500
It is said to describe the complexity of federalism here in Laredo, Texas. Some examples include issues like NAFTA, immigration, security, and the water.
What is transnational regionalism?
500
This Amendment represents an enhancement of national power.