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Question 1

Checks and balances

Answer 1

Limits gov power and balances the power among the branches

Question 2

Block grants

Answer 2

Federal grants to support broad programs in areas such as community development and social services

Question 3

Categorical grants

Answer 3

Federal grants used only for specific purposes of state and local spending

Question 4

Gibbins V Ogden

Answer 4

give congress power to regulate interstate commerce as enclosing virtually every form of commercial activity

Question 5

McCulloch V. Maryland

Answer 5

1819: supremacy of the national government over state governments

Question 6

Seperation of powers

Answer 6

Separation of power among the executive, legislative, and judicial so that one doesn’t control the others

Question 7

U.S. Government owns how much land?

Answer 7

28 percent

Question 8

Who adopted the Articles of Confederation?

Answer 8

The continental congress

Question 9

Madisonian Model

Answer 9

Governments final structure

• place as much gov beyond direct control of the majority
• separate powers of different institutions
• construct system of checks and balances

Question 10

Unitary government

Answer 10

Organizing a nation so that all power resides in the central government