FederalismReview

  1. The system of federalism provides for local action in matters of local concern, a dual system of government, and strength through unity.
  2. Concurrent powers are those that are exercised simultaneously by the National and the State governments.
  3. An enabling act directs any area desiring Statehood to prepare a constitution.
  4. States must honor the legality of one another's civil laws because of theFull Faith and Credit Clause.
  5. Local governments derive their power from State constitutions and State laws.
  6. The power to coin money is an expressed power of the National Government?
  7. Citizens who commit a crime in one State and then flee to another State to escape prosecution are to be returned to the original State underextradition.
  8. The Constitution requires the National Government to guarantee a republican form of government for every State.
  9. Agreements States enter into with both foreign nations and other States with the consent of Congress areinterstate compacts.
  10. Local government is a subunit of State government.
  11. In the case of McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court ruling was based upon the Supremacy Clause.
  12. The Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution provides that State laws and court decisions must generally be honored by other States.
  13. Funds given to a State by the National Government with special conditions attached are examples of categorical grants.
  14. A territory seeking Statehood is first directed to prepare a State constitution by means of an Enabling Act.
  15. According to the Privileges and Immunities Clause, a State cannot take unfair advantage in its laws of the residents of another State.
  16. In order for a new State to be admitted to the Union, Congress must pass an act of admission after a State constitution has been approved by the people of the proposed State.
  17. States receive grants of federal land under agrants-in-aid program for the purpose of establishing schools and colleges.
  18. The National Government has three types of delegated powers that have been granted to it in the Constitution.

19.A system of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several regional governments is called __federalism______.

20.The ___reserved__ powers are those set aside for the States.

21.The _____division of powers______between the National Government and the States was spelled out in the Bill of Rights.

22.Three obligations the Constitution places on the National Government for the benefit of the States are: a. ______to protect against invasion and domestic violence______

b. ______to guarantee every State a representative government______

c. ______to recognize the boundaries and physical existence of each State______

23. The general term for federal money or resources granted to States or local governments is

______grants-in-aid programs______.

Define:

block grant - federal aid given to States and local governments with virtually no conditions attached

exclusive powers – those powers exercised solely by the National Government

reserved powers –those powers held by the States, not granted specifically to the National Government by the Constitution

division of powers –the separation of governmental powers between the National Government and the 50 State governments.