POS 220 Quiz Module 2

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

home rule

What is the main function of the privileges and immunities clause of Article IV?

it prevents states from discriminating against nonresidents.

Cities, states and counties that have declared themselves "sanctuaries"

limit their cooperation with the national government's attempts to enforce immigration law

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program

provided temporary legal status and work permits to undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children

An example of ________ federalism is federal officials establishing environmental standards that every state must follow.

regulated

In ________, the Supreme Court reinterpreted the commerce clause, changing it from a check on national power to a source of national power.

1937

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

Cooperative federalism

Which statement about the legality of marijuana is most accurate?

Despite remaining illegal under federal law, more than half of the states have legalized medical marijuana and a handful have legalized recreational marijuana.

Which president introduced and presided over the New Deal?

Franklin Roosevelt

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

Great Depression

Advocates of limiting the powers of the national government justify their position by pointing to the ________ of the U.S. Constitution.

Tenth Amendment

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

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

If the federal government passed a law that did not provide money to state and local governments but required them to construct wheelchair lifts at all train stations, it would be an example of

an unfunded mandate

The ability to charter banks is an example of a ________ power.

concurrent

The Federalists believed that the powers of government could be limited by

creating an internal system of checks and controls within government

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) was important because it

established the supremacy of the national government in all matters affecting interstate commerce

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act

expanded the federal government's authority over public education.

The system of shared powers, divided between a central government and the state governments, is called

federalism

When was the era of dual federalism?

from the Founding until the New Deal

The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act was MOST closely related to which of the following constitutional clauses?

full faith and credit clause

Block grants are designed to

give the states considerable discretion in how money from the federal government should be spent.

A state government's authority to regulate the safety, health, and morals of its citizens is called a ________ power.

police

Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu was a French political thinker who argued that

power needed to be balanced by power as a bulwark against tyranny

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

preemption

The framers employed the separation of powers and federalism in order to

prevent the new government from abusing its power

The Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) was significant because it

required that all states offer marriage licenses to two people of the same sex

Which level of government writes the majority of criminal laws?

state governments

In a decision on the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court ruled that

state governments could decline to expand Medicaid coverage without losing their existing Medicaid funds from the federal government.

The Constitution implements federalism by dividing authority between ___________ and _____________ governments.

state;federal

The Supreme Court's decision in Printz v. United States was important because it declared that

the federal government could not regulate the working conditions or hours of labor fro businesses engaged solely in intrastate commerce.