Ch.3 Flashcards
Which term describes the sharing of powers between the national government and the state governments
Federal system
Which amendment to the Constitution stated that the powers not delegated to the national government or prohibited to the states were “reserved to the states?”
Tenth Amendment
A state government’s authority to regulate the health, safety, and morals of its citizens is frequently referred to as
The police power
Which constitutional clause has been central in debates over gay and lesbian marriage because it requires that states normally honor the public acts and judicial decisions of other states
full faith and credit clause
Many states have amended their constitutions to guarantee that large cities will have the authority to manage local affairs without interference from state government. This power is called
Home rule
The system of federalism that allowed states to do most of the fundamental governing from 1789 to 1937 was
dual federalism
In 1937, the Supreme Court laid the groundwork for a stronger federal government by
issuing a number of decisions that dramatically expanded the definition of the commerce clause
One of the most powerful tools by which the federal government has attempted to get the states to act in ways that are desired by the federal government is by
providing grants-in-aid
the process of returning more of the responsibilities of governing from the national level to the state level is known as
Devolution
the form of regulated federalism that allows the federal government to take over areas of regulation formerly overseen by states or local government is called
Preemption
When state and local governments must conform to costly regulations or conditions in order to receive grants but do not receive reimbursements for their expenditures from the federal government it is called
An unfounded mandate
To what does the term New Federalism refer?
efforts to return more policy-making discretion to the states through the use of block grants
