What are the powers of the federal government that go beyond those enumerated in the Constitution called?
100
What is a federalism?
What is a way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government have formal authority over the same land and people and it is a system of shared power between units of government called?
100
What is extradition?
The constitutional requirement that the states return a person charged with a crime in another state to that state for trial or imprisonment is known as...?
100
What is a confederation?
A form of government in which the national government is weak and most or all of the power is in the hands of the components.
100
What is a block grant?
What are federal grants given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs in areas such as community development and social services called?
200
What is the 10th amendment?
Which amendment states that powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States or the people?
200
What is a Formula Grants?
What is a federal categorical grants distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or in administrative regulations called?
200
What are privileges and immunities?
The constitutional provisions which prohibits states from discriminating against citizens of other states is known as?
200
What are Project Grants?
What is a federal categorical grant given for specific purposes and awarded on the basis of the merits of applications called?
200
What is Fiscal Federalism?
What is the pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system called?
300
What are Enumerated Powers?
What are powers of the federal government that are specifically addressed in the Constitution called?
300
What is United States v. Lopez or United States v. Morrison?
Name a supreme court case that limited Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce.
300
What is the 14th amendment?
What amendment protects the rights of the minorities?
300
What is devolution?
What is the transferring of responsibilities for policies from the federal government to the states?
300
What are Categorical Grants?
What is federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes or ‘categories’ of state and local spending called?
400
What is the Elastic Clause?
What clause authorizes Congress to pass all laws necessary and proper to carry out the enumerated powers?
400
What is Gibbons v Ogden?
What is the supreme court case that gave Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce and virtually every form of government?
400
What is the United States Constitution?
The powers of the states governments are ultimately granted by the...?
400
What is unitary government?
A way of organizing a government so that all the power resides in the central government.
400
What is cooperative federalism?
In which form of government are the powers and policy assignments of different levels of government are like a marble cake, with mingled responsibilities and blurred distinctions between layers of governments?
500
What is Full Faith and Credit?
What requires each state to recognize the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of all other states?
500
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
Which supreme court case ruled in the supremacy of the national government over the states.
500
What is the supremacy clause?
What clause made the Constitution, the laws of the national government, and the national government's treaties the supreme law of the land?
500
What is dual federalism?
In which form of government do states and national governments each remain supreme in their own sphere?
500
What are the struggle for civil rights and social equality, the civil war, the definition of the commerce clause, and the elaboration of the implied powers?
Name 2 events that contributed to the accumulation of national over state power.