Federalism GOVT-2305

The section of the Constitution in which Congress is given the power to regulate trade among the states and with foreign countries is ___________.

Commerce Clause

It is one type of system to order relations between governments. It consisting of a league of independent states, each having essentially sovereign powers. The central government created by such a league has only limited powers over the states. Which is the correct term?

Confederal System

The clause in Article I, Section 8, that grants Congress the power to do whatever is necessary to execute its specifically delegated powers. Which is the correct term?

Elastic Clause

The _______________ is the familiar name used to refer to Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution, which addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state." Which is the correct term?

Full Faith and Credit Clause

This case defined commerce as all commercial intercourse—all business dealing—including navigation and the transport of people.

Gibbons V. Ogden

This case determined that national government's commerce power was limited to interstate commerce and that it was an exclusive national power.

Gibbons V. Ogden

In this case, in 1816, Congress chartered The Second Bank of the United States.

McCulloch v. Maryland

The authority to legislate for the protection of the health, morals, safety, and welfare of the people. In the United States, most of this power is reserved to the states. Which is the correct term?

Police Power

Which term defines the following example: if you are a student from Iowa attending college in Ohio, you have the same rights as Ohioans to protest a traffic ticket, to buy a car, to hold a job, and to travel freely throughout the state?

Privileges and Immunities

Most concurrent powers

are not specifically stated in the Constitution, but rather only implied

In a unitary system of government, the decisions of the governments of the provinces

can be overruled by the national government.

Powers specifically granted to the national government by the Constitution are called

enumerated powers.

Cooperative federalism was a natural outcome of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs because

federal grants were given to states to administer programs.

In a unitary system, the flow of power is

from the central government to the local and state governments.

In a unitary system of government, the ultimate government authority is the

national or central government.

In a confederal political system the central governing unit has

no ability to make laws applicable to individuals without approval of state government.

In the case of McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court held that

only when acts of Congress are forbidden by the Constitution are they unconstitutional.

The authority to legislate for the protection of the health, morals and safety of the people is called

police power..

Reserved powers of the state governments include the power to

regulate commerce within its borders.

The concept of federal mandates refers to

requirements in federal legislation that force states to comply with certain rules.

The Tenth Amendment states that 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 the people.

In a federal political system power is

shared between the central government and regional governments.

The supremacy clause of the Constitution means that

states cannot use their reserved or concurrent powers to thwart national policies.

In Gibbons v. Ogden, the court held that

the national government can regulate commerce in states.

Implied powers come from

the necessary and proper clause.

"Enumerated powers" mean

the powers expressly delegated to the national government.

Obstacles to the creation of a unitary government at the Constitutional Convention included

the size and regional isolation would have been operationally difficult.

The main reason federal grants to the states increased so much is because

they appear to be "free" to state officials.

Of the different ways of ordering relations between central governments and local units, the most common method in the world today is a

unitary system.

The question(s) before the Supreme Court in McCulloch v. Maryland

was could the national government charter a bank. was could a state tax a national bank.