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18 Cards in this Set
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What exactly is Federalism?
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The division of powers and functions between the national government and the state governments.
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What would you describe sovereignty as?
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Supreme and independent political authority.
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What are expressed powers?
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Powers granted to the federal government specifically named in its text.
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What are implied powers?
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Powers derived from the necessary and proper clause (Article I, Section 8)
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What does the Necessary and Proper Clause do?
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It provides Congress with the authority to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry them out (aka. the Elastic Clause)
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Which amendment is also known as the "reserved powers", and what does it aim to do?
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The 10th Amendment; it aims to reserve powers to the states. 0
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Define Police Power
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The power reserved to the government to regulate the health, safety, and morals of its citizens.
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Define Concurrent powers
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The authority possessed by both State and National governments.
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What does the Full Faith and Credit Clause entail?
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Each state normally honors the public acts and judicial decisions that take place in another state.
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Explain Dual Federalism
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A two-layered system--national and state. Fundamental governmental powers were shared between the federal and state governments, the states exercising the most important powers
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What was congress allowed to do because of the commerce clause?
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Regulate commerce with foreign nations.
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What is cooperative federalism?
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*Supportive relations, sometimes partnerships, between the national government and the state and local governments.
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What exactly is grants-in-aid?
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A general term for funds given by Congress to state and local governments
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And what are categorical grants-in-aid?
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Funds given by Congress to states and localities that are ear-marked by law for specific categories (e.g educations; crime prevention)
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Explain what UNFUNDED MANDATES are.
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National standards or programs imposed on state and local governments by the federal government without accompanying funding or reimbursement.
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What are block grants?
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Federal funds given to state governments to pay for goods--with relatively few restrictions on how the funds may be spent.
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Define Devolution?
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The policy of removing a program from one level of government by deregulating or passing it down to a lower level. (Ex. National--->State---> Local)
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How does "State Sovereign Immunity" protect the states?
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States cannot be sued for violating an act of Congress
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