This clause delegates to Congress the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among several states, and with the Indian Tribes."
What is the commerce clause?
100
Powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution but are inferred from it.
What are inherent powers?
100
The district making up the area from which an official is elected.
What is constituency?
100
The elected leader of the party holding less than a majority of the seats in the House or Senate.
What is the minority leader?
200
The power reserved to the government to regulate the health, safety, and morals of its citizens.
What is police power?
200
A general term for funds given by Congress to state and local governments.
What are grants in aid?
200
The power of the president as head of the national military and the state national guard units.
What is Commander in Chief?
200
A representative who votes based on what he or she thinks is best for his or her constituency.
What is a Trustee?
200
A permanent legislative committee that considers legislation within its designated subject area.
What is a standing committee?
300
The authority possessed by both state and national governments, such as the power to levy taxes.
What are concurrent powers?
300
Federal funds given to state government to pay for goods, services, or programs, with relatively few restrictions on how the funds may be spent.
What are block grants?
300
According to Howell (Power without Persuasion) this feature of the presidential office is key.
What is the ability to act alone/unilaterally?
300
The length of a House term.
What is 2 years?
300
The priority or status ranking given to an individual on the basis of length of continuous service on a congressional committee.
What is seniority?
400
The system of government that prevailed in the US from 1789 to 1937, in which fundamental governmental powers were shared between the federal and state governments, with the states exercising the most important powers.
What is dual federalism?
400
National standards or programs imposed on state and local governments by the federal governments without accompanying funding or reimbursement.
What are unfunded mandates?
400
The Constitution does not explicitly recognize any of these presidential policy vehicles.
What are executive memoranda, determinations, administrative directives, proclamations, or national security directives?
400
Holding a political office in which one is running.
What is an incumbent or incumbency?
400
The right and power to decide if a change in policy will be considered.
What is gatekeeping authority?
500
A type of federalism existing since the New Deal era, in which grants-in-aid have been used strategically to encourage states and localities (without commanding them) to pursue nationally defined goals.
What is cooperative federalism?
500
The ruling in this case gave the national government more power by stating there were ‘implied’ powers to the Congress in the Constitution - specifically whether or not the US congress had the right to create a national bank.
What is McCulloch vs. Maryland?
500
Nixon used an executive order to design this agency not as an independent commission as Congress would have liked, but as an agency beholden directly to the president.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
500
The appropriations made by legislative bodies for local projects that often are not needed but are created so that local representatives can carry their home district in the next election.
What is pork-barrel legislation?
500
A joint committee created to work out a compromise for House and Senate versions of a piece of legislation.