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What year was Ohio added as a state?
1803
A person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution.
Fugitive
What is the "supreme law of the land"?
Constitution
How many people must live in a territory for it to apply to statehood?
60,000
The two most recent states added to the United States in 1959
Alaska and Hawaii
The authority to interpret and apply the law.
Jurisdiction
What is a Categorical grant?
Must be used for a specific purchase
What is a Project grant?
Fund various State and local projects
What is an example of a Project grant?
Funds for the National Caner Institution
An agreement made between two States.
Interstate Compact
Powers delegated to the national government written in the Constitution.
Expressed Powers
Who must ultimately sign the bill formally admitting a state into the union?
President
The legal process of returning a fugitive to a State.
Extradition
What is a Block grant?
Broader goals and fewer strings attached
What set the rules for admitting new states?
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
An act directing the people of a U.S. territory to frame a proposed State constitution
Enabling Act
An act creating a new State
Act of Admission
The clause of the Constitution that says that each State will respect the laws, records, and court decisions of other States.
Full Faith and Credit Clause
A general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision.
Referendum
The clause in the Constitution that says that no State can make unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who live in another State.
Privileges and Immunities Clause
What are Implied Powers?
Powers that are not specifically stated in the Constitution but are reasonably suggested.
What are Inherent Powers?
Those powers that belong to the national government because it is the national government of a sovereign state in the world community
What are Reserved Powers?
Those powers that the Constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not, at the same time, deny to the states
What are Exclusive Powers?
Powers that can be exercised only by the National Government and not by the States under any circumstances
What are Concurrent Powers?
Powers that both the National Government and the States posses and exercise