chapter 3 practice tests

The full faith and credit clause of the Constitution requires the

The full faith and credit clause of the Constitution requires the

During the Trump administration, which party used its control of several states to thwart the national government's immigration policies?

a) Democratic Party

What is the significance of the Supreme Court case Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) ?

a) It established the supremacy of the national government in all matters affecting interstate commerce.

________ is evidenced when national officials fund a project that is actually implemented by state governments.

________ is evidenced when national officials fund a project that is actually implemented by state governments.

In the 70 years following the Civil War, the Supreme Court interpreted the Constitution in a way that

a) allowed entrepreneurs to benefit from policies promoting commerce but shielded them from regulations that protected consumers and workers.

The specific powers granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8, of the U.S. Constitution are called the ________ powers.

a) expressed

Unfunded mandates are unpopular among those who want to

a) give states and localities the ability to set their own priorities.

Programs through which Congress provides money to state and local governments on the condition that the funds be employed for purposes defined by the federal government are called

a) grants-in-aid.

If the national government created a single-payer health care system, it would mostly like do so as an exercise of which power?

a) implied power

Attempts by Congress to regulate child labor and factory conditions in local workplaces were struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional in the late nineteenth century because regulating local workplaces was

a) perceived as beyond the scope of interstate commerce at the time.

The principle of ________ gives the federal government the power to override any state or local law in one particular area of policy.

a) preemption

Which powers, derived from the Tenth Amendment, are neither delegated to the national government nor denied to the states?

a) reserved

When a state decides how ballots are counted, it is exercising which constitutional power?

a) reserved power

The principle that the states should oppose the increasing authority of the national government is referred to as

a) states' rights.

Most state governments are different from the federal government in that

a) they are required to have their proposed budgets balance and are prohibited from carrying deficits into the next fiscal year.

If a state cuts assistance to the poor and neighboring states respond by making similar or deeper cuts in order to discourage poor people from moving to their states, it would be called a

b) "race to the bottom."

In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush worked with Congress to create which agency?

b) Department of Homeland Security

________ delegates authority to a lower level of government.

b) Devolution

The era of dual federalism was from the ________ until ________.

b) Founding; the New Deal

Who wrote the Supreme Court opinions in both McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)?

b) John Marshall

Which country was first to adopt federalism as its governing framework?

b) United States

Countries that have diverse ethnic, language, or regional groupings are more likely to have which type of government system?

b) confederal system

Regulated federalism is a form of federalism in which

c) Congress imposes legislation on states and localities, requiring them to meet national standards.

What was the overall importance of McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?

c) The Court allowed Congress to use the necessary and proper clause to broadly interpret its delegated powers.

The processes by which local, state, and federal governments negotiate and compromise over policy responsibilities is called

c) intergovernmental relations.

The Supreme Court's decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius is important for American federalism because it

c) limits the federal government's ability to impose conditions on states receiving federal funding.

The number of categorical grants in the United States increased dramatically during the

d) 1960s.

The power of Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states, and with Native American tribes is found in ________ of the U.S. Constitution.

d) Article I

Following a period of increased federal intervention into education policy, which law returned power over education policy to state governments?

d) Every Student Succeeds Act

Which president introduced and presided over the New Deal?

d) Franklin Roosevelt

"Commerce among the several states" was first defined in which Supreme Court case?

d) Gibbons v. Ogden

State laws banning interracial marriage were struck down as unconstitutional in which Supreme Court case?

d) Loving v. Virginia

_____ refer to power reserved to state governments to regulate the health, safety, and morals of their citizens.

d) Police powers

Which amendment preserves a strong role for the states in the American federal republic?

d) Tenth

What happened in 1937 that decisively ended the era of dual federalism?

d) The Supreme Court issued a series of decisions throwing out the old distinction between interstate and intrastate commerce.

The United States, Canada, and Switzerland are all ________ systems of government, while France is a ________ system of government.

d) federal; unitary

What is it called when a state grants a city the ability to govern its own local affairs?

d) home rule

Suppose a state passed a law that gave state residents preference over nonresidents in obtaining work in that state. This law would violate the ________ clause of the Constitution.

d) privileges and immunities

Which of the following events was most influential in triggering the rise of a more active national government?

d) the Great Depression

The "traditional system" of American federalism refers to a period when

d) the national government was quite small and carried out only a narrow and very specialized set of responsibilities.