Chapter 4

Question 0

Powers directly expressed or stated in the C onstitution by the Founders.

Answer 0

Expressed powers

Question 1

Powers the Constitution grants or delegates to the national government.

Answer 1

Delegated powers

Question 2

Powers that the national government requires to carry out the powers that are expressly defined in the Constitution.

Answer 2

Implied powers

Question 3

Allows the powers of Congress to stretch. Also called the necessary and proper clause.

Answer 3

Elastic clause

Question 4

Powers that the national government may exercise simply because it is a government.

Answer 4

Inherited powers

Question 5

Reserves certain powers strictly to the states.

Answer 5

Reserved powers

Question 6

Makes the acts and treaties of the United States supreme.

Answer 6

Supremacy clause

Question 7

Powers that both the national governm ent and the states have.

Answer 7

Concurrent powers

Question 8

enables the people of the territory interested in becoming a state to prepare a constitution.

Answer 8

Enabling act

Question 9

return to a state

Answer 9

Extradite

Question 10

laws relating to disputes between individuals, groups, or with the state.

Answer 10

Civil laws

Question 11

Such compacts are written agreements between two or more states.

Answer 11

Interstate compacts