Ch 3

Which of the following statements most accurately states the constitutional power of the U.S. Congress?

Any action that Congress takes must be tied to one of the delegated powers.

Which of the following is an example of a concurrent power?

Power to collect taxes

Why does Congress enact so many unfunded mandates?

The federal government can address national priorities while passing the costs to the states.

Congress passes legislation that would criminalize an action that was not illegal when it was done. Which of the following terms best applies to this measure?

Bill of Attainder

Why do many Republicans want to convert categorical grants, such as Medicaid, into block grants?

Block grants can save money compared with categorical grants.

Are the issues of immigration and marriage addressed by the federal government or state governments?

Both immigration and marriage equality are addressed by the national government and the states.

Are categorical or block grants more common?

Categorical grants are are much more common because they give the federal government more control over how money is spent and programs are administered.

Both the federal government and the states have the power to tax. Therefore, the power to tax is an example of which of the following?

Concurrent powers

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorizes the federal government to withhold federal grants as well as file lawsuits against state and local officials for practicing racial discrimination. This is an example of which of the following concepts?

Crosscutting mandate

Unitary governments sometimes gradually decentralized. Which of the following terms applies to this decentralization?

Devolution

In which of the following cases, did the Supreme Court rule that Congress had no authority to regulate slavery in the territories?

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Which of the following Supreme Court cases dealt with slavery from the perspective of property rights?

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Which of the following concepts is defined as the view that the national government and the states have distinct roles, with little overlap in their activities or the services they provide?

Dual federalism

What is the largest expenditure category for local governments?

Education

The constitutional provision that declares that gives Congress the power "to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying" out its constitutional responsibilities is known by which of the following terms?

Elastic Clause

The powers to regulate foreign commerce, tax, and borrow money are examples of which of the following?

Enumerated powers

Which of the following is a retroactive law?

Ex post facto law

Which president was associated with the New Deal?

Franklin Roosevelt

In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court rule that Congress had broad power to regulate interstate commerce?

Gibbons v. Ogden

In most states, motor fuel taxes finance which of the following?

Highways

What was the main drawback of the Articles of Confederation?

It maximized regional self-rule at the expense of effective national governance.

How did the Civil War and its aftermath affect the relative balance of power between the national government and the states?

It shifted power toward the federal government

States adopt different policy solutions to similar problems. Approaches that are perceived as effective are then adopted by other states around the country. Which of the following phrases best explains this concept?

Laboratories of democracy

Which of the following terms refers to the mixture of programs and authority among federal, state, and local governments?

Marble cake federalism

In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court affirm the National Supremacy Clause by ruling that states cannot tax units of the national government?

McCulloch v. Maryland

Congress enacted the Sherman Antitrust Act to outlaw which of the following?

Monopolies

Which of the following cases dealt with marriage equality?

Obergefell v. Hodges

People who move from one state to another are allowed to take jobs in their new states, purchase property, shop in stores, etc. even though they are new to the state. This situation reflects which of the following constitutional provisions?

Privileges and Immunities Clause

What is the largest expenditure category for state governments?

Public welfare

Which of the following constitutional amendments allowed the federal government to collect an income tax?

Sixteenth

Which of the following government programs was adopted during the New Deal era?

Social Security

What is the most important source of state revenue?

Taxes

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The above is the text of which of the following?

Tenth Amendment

Which of the following was a result of the case of McCulloch v. Maryland?

The Supreme Court upheld the power of Congress to create a National Bank.

The Supreme Court decision in McCulloch v. Maryland dealt with which of the following constitutional issues?

The power of Congress to charter a national bank

What is dual federalism?

The states and national government exercise exclusive authority in distinctly delineated spheres of jurisdiction.

Which of the following was a goal of New Federalism?

To decentralize federal programs

In which of the following cases did the Supreme Court rule that the federal government lacked the power to regulate manufacturing?

United States v. E. C. Knight

Congress passes legislation to regulate interstate trucking companies. Under what provision of the Constitution does Congress derive the authority for its action?

commerce clause The Constitution gives Congress authority to regulate commerce among the states.