Federalism

Question 0

Unitary

Answer 0

U.K.

Question 1

Confederacy

Answer 1

Civil war (south)
EU

Question 2

Grants in aid

Answer 2

Focus on state need

Question 3

Why federal money is attractive to states

Answer 3

Money is there (fed gov can deficit spend, tariffs ect.)
Federal income tax flexibility
Federal govt can print money
Politics and free money (states don’t have to tax citizens)5

Question 4

How do states attract fed money

Answer 4

Intergovernmental lobby: mayors, governors, superintendents

Question 5

Categorical grants

Answer 5

Congress liked, states didn’t
Money spent for narrow purpose
Strict conditions
Federal freeway system, Medicare, Medicare, welfare to work 1996, head start, food stamps, “build an airport”

Question 6

Revenue sharing

Answer 6

Broad equal giving of money to states
Ended in 1896
Every state got equal money
States liked it, congress didn’t

Question 7

Block grants

Answer 7

Combined categorical grants
Fairly specific
Large sums of money
Local law enforcement, education (NCLB and race to the top), unemployment, community development

Question 8

Hamilton’s Federalists

National bank

Answer 8

Fed power

Question 9

Dual federalism

Answer 9

Federal power is limited, states and fed gov are sovereign within their spheres

Question 10

Progressive error

TR, Taft, Wilson

Answer 10

Fed power

Question 11

Civil war

Lincoln suspends habeus corpus

Answer 11

Fed power

Question 12

Marshall’s Supreme Court

Answer 12

Fed power

Question 13

War on poverty and great society

Answer 13

Fed power
LBJ 1960s
Medicare, housing, urban development

Question 14

Affordable care act

Answer 14

Fed power

Obama

Question 15

John c Calhoun

Answer 15

Nullification

State power

Question 16

Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

Answer 16

States have judicial review

State power

Question 17

Andrew Jackson

Answer 17

Force Act

Calhoun

Question 18

Nixon’s new federalism

Answer 18

Return to state autonomy/sovereignty
Gave states power to overcome some LBJ great society programs
Revenue sharing

Question 19

Reagan and HW Bush

Answer 19

Gov doesn’t solve problems govnis the problem – Reagan
Decreased categorical grants
Decreased money from fed to state
State and local govs increased taxes as result

Question 20

New deal

Answer 20

FDR 1930-40
Social security
Fed power

Question 21

Bill Clinton

Answer 21

1996 welfare reform act

State power

Question 22

George w bush

Answer 22

NCLB
Major tax cut
Patriot act
Fed power

Question 23

Marburg v Madison

Answer 23

Fed gov has the power of judicial review

Supremacy clause

Question 24

17th amendment

Answer 24

Allowed direct election of senators

Question 25

14th amendment

Answer 25

1868

Selectively incorporated us bill of rights with state bills

Question 26

McCulloch v Maryland

Answer 26

Power to tax is the power to kill
States cannot tax national bank
Elastic clause gives congress implied powers

Question 27

Fletcher v peck

Answer 27

Declared state law unconstitutional

Supremacy clause

Question 28

Gibbons v Ogden

Answer 28

National gov controls interstate trade

Commerce Clause

Question 29

National labor relations board v jones and Laughlin steel

Answer 29

Declared NLR unconstitutional expanding national gov power over interstate commerce
Commerce clause

Question 30

Heart of Atlanta motel v US

Answer 30

Congress can use commerce clause to fight discrimination

Question 31

US v Lopez

Answer 31

Congress exceeded commerce clause by prohibiting guns in schools

Question 32

Federal mandates

Answer 32

Regulations with no money attached

Civil rights act 1964, voting rights act 1965, Americans with disabilities act, Medicaid, NCLB, clean air act

Question 33

Unfounded mandate reform act 1995

Answer 33

Forced fed gov to fund future mandates
Not really followed
Clinton