Chapter 3

Question 0

Another name for dual federalism.

Answer 0

Layer cake

Question 1

When was dual federalism prevalent?

Answer 1

Founding through 1937

Question 2

State and national governments reign supreme in their respective spheres

Answer 2

Dual federalism

Question 3

Mingling of state and national responsibilities

Answer 3

Cooperative federalism

Question 4

Sharing of powers and policy assignments

Answer 4

Cooperative federalism

Question 5

Slang name for cooperative federalism

Answer 5

Marble cake

Question 6

Shifting power toward the states

Answer 6

New federalism

Question 7

Who is new Federalism associated with?

Answer 7

Nixon and Reagan

Question 8

Enumerated powers are derived from _________.

Answer 8

What is explicitly written in the constitution

Question 9

National powers include:

Answer 9

• diplomatic recognition
• national defense
• acquiring territories

Question 10

Local and county governments are considered to be _______ governments.

Answer 10

State

Question 11

Powers granted to congress but not denied to states

Answer 11

Concurrent powers

Question 12

National supremacy clause

Answer 12

State laws must comply with national laws

Question 13

Three obligations of state governments

Answer 13

• full faith and credit
• privileges and immunities clause
• extradition

Question 14

Full faith and credit

Answer 14

Each state must honor records of other states

Question 15

Why is full faith and credit controversial?

Answer 15

Because it required states to recognize same sex marriages enacted in other states

Question 16

In 1996, what bill was passed to weaken full faith and credit controversy?

Answer 16

Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)

Question 17

Citizens of other states granted the same rights as citizens of that state; cannot unreasonably discriminate against other citizens

Answer 17

Privileges and immunities clause

Question 18

What is considered reasonable discrimination under privileges and immunities clause?

Answer 18

College tuition differences for in and out of state students

Question 19

Governments expected to return convicts to the state they are accused in

Answer 19

Extradition

Question 20

Agreements between the states are called

Answer 20

Compacts

Question 21

3 Rights Guaranteed to States

Answer 21

1) Republican form of government
2) Protection from invasion and attack
3) new states granted same rights as old

Question 22

Belief that the constitution limits national authority

Answer 22

Decentralists approach

Question 23

Philosophy of interpreting the constitution narrowly, giving most rights to the states

Answer 23

Strict constructionist view

Question 24

What group holds a strict constructionist view and believes in state rights?

Answer 24

Decentralists

Question 25

Well known Decentralists include:

Answer 25

Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Barry Goldwater

Question 26

Political parties who prefer Decentralist Approach

Answer 26

Republicans, Christian Fundamentalists, Southern Conservatives

Question 27

A belief that the constitution was created by the people, not the states. Therefore, it's the people whose rights are important

Answer 27

Centralist

Question 28

The role of the national government in the centralist approach

Answer 28

Protecting citizens when states do not

Question 29

Political party who favors Centralist Approach

Answer 29

Democrats

Question 30

Famous Centralists

Answer 30

Alexander Hamilton, Franklin D. and Theodore Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton, Obama

Question 31

Historically dominant approach

Answer 31

Centralist

Question 32

Court case establishing the idea of implied powers

Answer 32

McCullock vs. Maryland

Question 33

Congress can pass any law deemed necessary and proper

Answer 33

Elastic Clause

Question 34

The right of congress to regulate virtually anything

Answer 34

Commerce clause

Question 35

Which type of grant is becoming more popular in America?

Answer 35

Block

Question 36

Traditionally, what political party favors block grants?

Answer 36

Republican

Question 37

Devolution revolution

Answer 37

The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.

Question 38

Express powers

Answer 38

Powers the Constitution specifically grants to one of the branches of the national government.

Question 39

Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states, by compact, create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals

Answer 39

Confederation

Question 40

Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its functions

Answer 40

Implied powers

Question 41

Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government, the actions of the federal government will prevail.

Answer 41

National Supremacy

Question 42

McCulloch vs. Maryland

Answer 42

established principle of national supremacy, or the overruling power of national vs. state law

Question 43

Preemption

Answer 43

federal law’s precedence of state or local law

Question 44

3 concurrent powers

Answer 44

Taxing Court systems Law enforcement