Powers expressed, implied, and inherent, granted to the national government by the constitution.
What is delegated powers?
100
grants of federal money or other resources to states, cities, countries and other local units
what is the grant-in aid program?
100
Numbered sections of a document. The unamended constitution is divided into seven.
What is articles?
100
A congressional act directing the people of a U.S. territory to frame a proposed State constitution as a step towards admission to the Union.
What is enabling act?
100
Chief executive's powers to reject a bill passed by the legislature.
What is veto?
200
those delegated powers of the national government that are spelled out expressly in the constitution.
What is expressed power?
200
Form of federal monetary aid under which congress gave a share federal tax revenue, with virtually no restriction to the state, cities, countries, and townships.
What is revenue sharing?
200
Concept that holds that government and its officers are always subject by law?
What is rule of law?
200
A congressional act admitting a new state to the Union.
What is act of admission?
200
Formal agreement entered into with the consent of congress, between or among states, or between a state and a a foreign state.
What is interstate compact?
300
Those delegated powers of the national government that are suggested by the expressed powers set out in the constitution.
What is implied powers?
300
the type of federal grant in aid, made fro some specific, closely defined purpose.
What is a categorical grant?
300
Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey by law.
What is constitutionalism?
300
Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public act, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
What is full faith and credit clause?
300
A system of government in which a written constitution divides powers between a central, or national government and several regional governments.
What is federalism?
400
Powers the constitution is presumed to have delegated to the national because it is the government of a sovereign state with the world community.
What is inherent powers?
400
One type of federal grant in aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy.
What is a block grant?
400
Systems of overlapping the powers of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches to permit each branch to check actions of the other.
What is checks and balances?
400
The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to that state.
What is extradition?
400
A formal agreement between tow or more sovereign states.
What is treaty?
500
those powers that the constitution doesn't grant to the national government and doesn't, at the same time, deny to the state.
What is reserved powers?
500
one type of federal grant in aid made for specific projects to states, localities, and private agencies who apply for them.
What is a project grant?
500
The executive, legislature, and judicial branches are divided among three independent and coequal branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
500
Constitution's stipulation that all citizens are entitled to certain "privileges and immunities," regardless of their
State of residence; no State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States.
What is privileges and immunities clause?
500
A group of persons chosen in each state and the district of Columbia every four years who make a formal elections of president or vice president.