A formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.
What is a treaty?
100
A federal principle or system of government.
What is federalism?
100
Prevents a state from treating other states in a discriminatory manner, with regard to basic civil rights
What is What is the Privileges and Immunities Clause
100
Number of sections of a document, the unamended Constitution is divided into seven sections.
What are Articles?
200
Government must obey the law.
What is Constitutionalism?
200
An international agreement regarding routine administrative matters not warranting a formal treaty, made by the executive branch of the US government without ratification by the Senate.
What is the Executive Agreement?
200
Congressional act admitting a new state to the union.
What is the Act of Admission.
200
one type of federal grants-in-aid made for specific projects to states, local cities, and private agencies that apply for them.
What is project grant?
200
The restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws
What is Rule of Law
300
Ability to reject a bill passed by legislature.
What is a veto?
300
Group of persons chosen in each state and the District of Columbia every four years who make a formal selection of the President and Vice President.
What is the Electoral College?
300
Grants of federal money or other resources of the State, cities, and other local units.
What is the Grant-in-aid program?
300
The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to that state
What is an extradition?
300
Power of a court to determine the constitutionally of a
What is Judicial Review?
400
Document containing the first 10 amendments of the constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
Custom that the Senate will not approve a presidential appointment opposed by a majority party senator from the state in which appointed would serve.
What is Senatorial Courtesy?
400
Powers that both the national government and the state possess and exercise.
What is concurrent powers?
400
One type of federal grant-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policies.
What is Block Grant?
400
A statute empowering a person or body to take certain action, esp. to make regulations, rules, or orders.
What is the enabling act?
500
Changes or additions that become part of the written language of the Constitution itself.
What is a formal amendment?
500
A presidential advisory body, traditionally made up of the heads of the executive departments and other officers.
What is a cabinet?
500
Powers expressed, implied, or inherit granted to the national government by the constitution.
What is Delegated powers?
500
Those powers that the constitution does not grant the national government and does not, at the same time, deny to the states.
What are Reserved Powers?
500
States can (with the consent of congress) enter into agreements among themselves and with foreign states.