Chapter 9 Flashcards
Tax on the sale of goods produced within the United States
Excise tax
Spending projects that a congressman works to get for his/her district that will benefit the people of the district but are actually designed to help them get re-elected
Pork-barrel
Their primary power is to make laws
Congress
Tax on an import
Duty
This amendment created income tax
Sixteenth amendment
Three ways that congress conducts this entitlements, borrowing, and guaranteed loans
Back door
This has value only because the national government says it does
Fiat money
They were granted citizenship in 1924
Native Americans
This amendment granted the District of Columbia three electoral votes
Twenty third amendment
All federal judicial appointments are subjects to this by the senate
Confirmation
This is where all revenue bills originate
House of Representatives
This a federal government power to regulate interstate commerce
Gibbons vs. Ogden
Reaction into this event cause the war powers act of 1973
Vietnam war
Government compensation programs that congress has protected by law
Entitlements
Constitutional powers not withheld from the states but are withheld from the national government
Reserved powers