Unit 2.2

Question 0

Enumerated/ Expressed Powers

Answer 0

Powers of the federal government that are specifically addressed in the Constitution.

Question 1

McCulloh v. Maryland

Answer 1

An 1819 Supreme Court decision that established the supremacy of the national government over state government.

Question 2

Concurrent Powers

Answer 2

Powers given to both states and the federal government by the US Constitution

Question 3

Implied Powers

Answer 3

Those powers in the Constitution that are not listed are delegated. An example of an implied power is the elastic clause giving Congress the right to make laws that are’ necessary and proper.’

Question 4

Elastic Cause

Answer 4

The final paragraph of article 1, section 8, of the Constitution, which authorizes Congress to pass all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out the enumerated powers.

Question 5

Gibbons v. Ogden

Answer 5

The 1824 Supreme Court case in which the court defined commerce very broadly to encompass virtually every form of commercial activity.
• this help Congress to promote economic development

Question 6

Commerce Power

Answer 6

The Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate interstate and international commerce, called the commerce power.

Question 7

Extradition

Answer 7

A legal process whereby a state surrenders a person charged with a crime to the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.

Question 8

Federalism

Answer 8

The overall division of power between the federal government and state government’s; as defined in the Tenth amendment of the Constitution.

Question 9

Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 9

A Supreme Court case in 1954 that held school segregation to be unconstitutional

Question 10

Eleventh Amendment

Answer 10

An amendment to the U.S. Constitution that says federal courts can order states to obey the Constitution or federal laws and treaties

Question 11

Extradition

Answer 11

a legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one state to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed

Question 12

Privileges and immunities

Answer 12

a clause in Article IV, Section 2, of the Constitution. The guarantee that the Rights of a citizen in one state will be respected by other states.

Question 13

Dual Federalism (Layer Cake)

Answer 13

a system of government in which both the states and the national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies

Question 14

Cooperative Federalism (Marble Cake)

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a system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states an the national government; they may also share costs, administration, and even blame for programs that work poorly

Question 15

Creative Federalism

Answer 15

Developed during Pres. Lyndon Johnson’s administration, it was characterized by the great Society programs, which placed a major responsibility on federally funded programs. LIBERAL

Question 16

Fiscal Federalism

Answer 16

the pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system; it is the cornerstone of the national government’s relations with state and local governments

Question 17

Devolution

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Transferring responsibility for policies from the federal government to state and local government’s

Question 18

Partially Funded Mandate

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Question 19

Unfunded Mandate

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Question 20

Preemption

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Eliminating something before it happens- example bringing down a terrorist group before they attack

Question 21

The No Child left behind act

Answer 21

The largest expansion of the federal role in education since Lyndon Johnson’s great Society and a policy that has allowed more federal intrusion into into a state domain than almost any other in US history

Question 22

Grants-in-Aid

Answer 22

Federal funds appropriated by Congress for distribution to state and local government’s

Question 23

Equal opportunity act of 1982

Answer 23

This stops job discrimination by state and local government’s

Question 24

Project grants

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Federal categorical grants given for specific purposes and awarded on the basis of the merits of applications

Question 25

Categorical grants

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Federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes or categories of state and local spending. They come with strings attached such as nondiscrimination provisions.
Two types-project and formula grants

Question 26

Block grants

Answer 26

Federal grants given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs and areas such as community development and social services.

Question 27

Tenth Amendment

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It makes explicit the idea that the federal government is limited to only the powers granted in the Constitution,

Question 28

Formula grants

Answer 28

Federal categorical grants distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or administrative regulations.

Question 29

Revenue sharing

Answer 29

The federal government shares its tax revenue with each state. Use during the administration of Nixon. Three reasons for doing this: one, solve state money issues, two, states decide use of money and three- states no longer have to tax the very poor

Question 30

Motor voter act of 1993

Answer 30

Signed by president Clinton, it enables people to register (to vote) at motor vehicle departments

Question 31

Intergovernmental lobby

Answer 31

An interest group made up of Mayors, governors, and other state and local officials who depend on FEDERAL funds

Question 32

Grassroots Government

Answer 32

Government that is close to the people (populist)

Question 33

Who assigns states important responsibilities for Public policy?

Answer 33

Federal government

Question 34

What are the pros and cons of diversity in policy?

Answer 34

Pros it allows for different opinions, central to the local government and its needs. Cons the states decide where the money goes and if they don’t have the money then the program isn’t funded