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Two or more levels of government have authority over the same area and people.
What is federalism?
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A type of organizing government so that all power resides in a central government.
What is a unitary system?
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States that powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by the states, are reserved to the states.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
100
These type of powers are stated in the Constitution.
What are Enumerated Powers?
100
The fact that a driver's license from one state is valid in other states is an example of...
What is full faith and credit?
200
Responsibilities are mingled and distinctions are blurred between the levels of government.
What is cooperative federalism?
200
The pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system.
What is fiscal federalism?
200
This type of grant provides more or less automatically to support broad programs.
What are Block Grants?
200
The one area of mutual obligations in which the states allow many exceptions.
What are privileges and immunities clause?
200
The type of aid that can be used only for one of several hundred specific purposes.
What is categorical grants
300
Funds appropriate for specific purposes, such as school lunches or the buildings of highways or airports, which are allocated by formula and subject to detailed federal conditions.
What are categorical grants?
300
The constitutional provision requiring that state courts enforce civil judgments of the courts of other states and accept their public records as valid is found in the...
What is full faith and credit clause?
300
The clause that Congress can use all means necessary and proper to exercise its Constitutional powers means that...
What is Congress has implied powers?
300
The Clause that establishes the Constitution, laws of the national government, and treaties as the supreme law of the land.
What is the Supremacy Clause?
300
States and the national government each remain supreme within their own spheres.
What is dual federalism?
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The term "federal government" refers to.
What are state and national governments?
400
Most problems and policies require the authority and resources of the national government.
What is the result of the rapid growth of the national government?
400
Keeping a state militia (now call the National Guard).
What are states NOT prohibited from?
400
The Supremacy of the national government.
What did the Civil War and the civil rights movement illustrate?
400
Making treaties with foreign governments.
What are states prohibited from?
500
In the history of the federal system, a major area of tension between the states and the federal government has been over...
What is who controls public policy and what it should be?
500
Standard operating procedures in cooperative federalism include...
What is shared costs, federal guidelines, and shared administration?
500
What effect can federal grants have on states?
What is unwanted financial burdens?
500
Having state governments adds thousands of elected offices for which citizens may vote or run, increasing access to government, and increasing the opportunities for government to be responsive to demands for policies.
How does Federalism contribute to democracy?
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Policy diversity can discourage states from providing services that would otherwise be available, Local interests may be able to thwart national majority support of certain policies, and the large number of governments in the United States make exercising democratic control more difficult.
What are the disadvantages of federalism in democracy?