Checks and Balances
What are the shared powers called between national and state government?
Ex. Taxes
What are concurrent powers?
What group at the constitutional convention favored strong state government and feard that a strong national government would be a threat to individual rights?
What are the Anti-Federalists?
What amendment asserts that powers not delegated to the national government or denied to the states are reserved to the states?
What is the 10th amendment?
Who had the responsibility of the post offices?
What is the National Government?
A system of government in which a constitution divides power between a central and several regional governments
What is federalism?
Who receives reserved powers?
Ex. Public schools
What is the state government?
What is the form of federalism in which national and state governments work together, also known as marble cake federalism?
What is cooperative federalism?
What is the ability of a state to govern its territory free from the control of its internal affairs by other states?
How many votes would each state receive regardless of size?
What is 1 vote?
Constitutional authority is shared by three different branches of government.
What is Separation of powers?
Who is responsible for interpreting the constitution?
What is the Judicial branch?
What is a structure within a society that connects the people to the government or centralized authority? Ex. political parties, interest groups.
What are linkage institutions?
What are broad grants with few strings attached; given to states by the federal government for specified activities, such as secondary education or health services
What are block grants?
What percentage of one's financial earnings would be required for taxes?
None, the national government could not tax under the articles.
An order to produce an arrested person before a judge.
What is Habeus Corpus?
Which branch may veto legislation?
What is the executive branch?
What is the court case in which the supreme court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper clause that the state government could not interfere with?
What is McCulloch V Maryland?
Requires that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
Ex. Driers license, marriage license
What is the full faith and credit clause?
How many members had to agree to make any changes to the articles?
All, and it had to be unanimous.
Terms set by the national government that states must meet if they are to receive certain federal funds.
What are the conditions of aid?
"The power of the purse", such as declaring war, is an example of which branches overarching power?
What is the legislative branch?
Part of the constitution requiring that states must treat non-state residents within their borders as they would treat their own residents. This was meant to protect commerce and travels between states.
What is the Privileges and Immunities Clause?
Powers that include expressed, implied, and inherent-- those which are granted to it in the Constitution.
What are delegated powers?
A new state would need a population of how many people?
60,000
The effort to transfer responsibility for many public programs and services from the federal government to the states.
What is devolution?