Chapter 4 Test

Question 1

What are the 4 obligations the constitution places on the National Government for the benefit of the states?

Answer 1

1. Guarantee the states a republican form of government
2. Protect the states against foreign invasion and domestic violence
3. Respect territorial integrity of states
4. Admitting new states

Question 2

What are the 4 programs (forms of federal aid) in which the National Government helps/assists the states?

Answer 2

1. Grants- in Aid
2. FBI Assists state and local police
3. Trains the National Guard for the states
4. Takes a census for the states

Question 3

Name the 3 state aid programs in which the states help/assist the National Government?

Answer 3

1. State and local police assist the FBI
2. States run the naturalization immigrant programs
3. States run all national elections

Question 4

List and describe the 3 types of federal grants?

Answer 4

1. Categorical Grant’s- used for specific purchase/programs such as college tuition, school lunch, water treatment
2. Block grants- used for large broad programs such as welfare
3. Project grants- used for projects such as medical research (cancer,aids) given to private government agencies

Question 5

What 2 interstate compacts do all 50 states agree upon?

Answer 5

1. Compact for the supervision of paroles and probationers

2. Compact on juvenile delinquents

Question 6

Lists the “Ladder of laws” in the Supremacy Claus: Who administers this clause?

Answer 6

1. US Constitution
2. Acts of Congress/National laws
3. State Constitutions
4. City/ county laws (local)
   The Supreme Court administers this clause

Question 7

List examples of reasonable distinctions that states can use against residents of another state under the privileges and immunities clause?

Answer 7

1. Can’t vote
2. Can’t hold public office
3. Can’t practice law, medicine, teach, etc (without state certifications)
4. Charge more for college

Question 8

Delegated Powers

Answer 8

Powers granted to the national government by the constitution such as power to coin money and regulate powers

Question 9

Expressed Powers

Answer 9

Spelled out in words in the constitution powers

Question 10

Implied powers

Answer 10

Suggested but not stated in the constitution

Question 11

Inherent powers

Answer 11

Powers given to the national government because it is a government of a sovereign state- inherited

Question 12

Concurrent Powers

Answer 12

Powers that the states and national government share

Question 13

Reserved Powers

Answer 13

Powers not given the national government and not deemed to the states

Question 14

Supremacy clause

Answer 14

Resolves conflicts between the two levels of government by setting up “ladder of laws”

Question 15

Supreme Court

Answer 15

The “umpire” of the Supremacy clause that makes rulings and final decisions

Question 16

Dual federalism

Answer 16

1788-1937 Government power was strictly divided by the states and national government (national government was small)

Question 17

Cooperative Federalism

Answer 17

1937-today Established social programs to assist the states with regulations- national government became very large

Question 18

Full faith and credit clause

Answer 18

States must recognize the validity of records documents and civil court decisions in other states

Question 19

Privileges and immunities clause

Answer 19

Stats’s cannot draw reasonable distinctions (discrimination) between their own residents and residents of other states and must allow them to buy own rent or sell property or marry within its borders, move contracts

Question 20

Extradition

Answer 20

The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned by another state and prevents fugitives from escaping justice

Question 21

Act of admission

Answer 21

Congress agrees to grant statehood

Question 22

Interstate Compacts

Answer 22

Formal agreement entered into with the consent of Congress, between or among States, or between a State and a foreign state

Question 23

Public Acts

Answer 23

Laws of a State

Question 24

Judicial Proceedings

Answer 24

The outcome of court actions; damage awards, the probating of wills, divorce decrees, and so forth