Retake Test thing

What is the significance of the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984?

It stipulated that states must have a minimum drinking age of 21 in order to receive full federal highway funding

Which of the following best describes the influence of social contract theory on the Constitution of the United States?

The framers believed that a strong central government was necessary to control the chaotic relationshipsbetween the individual states.

"When land-forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel, shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct, and all vacancies shall be filled up by the State which first made the appointment." Articles of Confederation, Article VII, 1777 Which of the following is a consequence of the policy described in the passage above?

A consequence of the policy described in Article VII of the Articles of Confederation, 1777, was that the federal government lacked the power to create a centralized military during peace times.

Which of the following forms of financial aid from the national government gives the states the broadest discretion in the spending of money?

Block grants

Which of the following is an example of checks and balances?

Congress can make laws, but the President can veto those laws.

Which of the following principles explains why their was variations among the States regarding same-sex marriages prior to 2015

Federalism

Which of the following actions by the federal government best illustrates the concept of unfunded mandates?

Requiring states and municipalities to provide certain services for their citizens without providing resources to pay for those services.

"To what expedient, then, shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the Constitution? The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places." Publius (James Madison), Federalist No. 51, 1788 Which of the following statements best summarizes Madison's argument?|

Something something checks and balances?

"Mitt Romney and I ran a long and spirited campaign against one another, but I've always believed that when he was governor here in Massachusetts, he did the right thing on health care. It's because you guys had a proven model that we built the Affordable Care Act on this template of proven bipartisan success. [The Massachusetts' universal health care measure] was the model for the nation's law." President Barack Obama, in a speech in Boston on the Affordable Care Act, 2013 Which of the following statements is most consistent with President Obama's argument in this passage?

State and local governments can become proving grounds for new ideas

A member of the House of Representatives proposes a Constitutional amendment that would force the president and Congress to balance the budget every year. Which of the following accurately describes the amendment process?

The accurate description of the amendment process for the scenario that is described is that the bill must pass both the House and the Senate with a two-thirds majority

Which of the following actions by the federal government would most likely be considered an implied power based on the precedent established by McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?

The power to create a national bank.

Which of the following best illustrates the concept of "Separation of Powers" in the US Constitution?

The president commands the nation's armed forces, while Congress has the power to ratify treaties

Which of the following is an accurate comparison of the exclusive and concurrent powers of the federal government?

declare war levy taxes