Chapter 4 Test Flashcards
(24 cards)
What are the 4 obligations the constitution places on the National Government for the benefit of the states?
- Guarantee the states a republican form of government
- Protect the states against foreign invasion and domestic violence
- Respect territorial integrity of states
- Admitting new states
What are the 4 programs (forms of federal aid) in which the National Government helps/assists the states?
- Grants- in Aid
- FBI Assists state and local police
- Trains the National Guard for the states
- Takes a census for the states
Name the 3 state aid programs in which the states help/assist the National Government?
- State and local police assist the FBI
- States run the naturalization immigrant programs
- States run all national elections
List and describe the 3 types of federal grants?
- Categorical Grant’s- used for specific purchase/programs such as college tuition, school lunch, water treatment
- Block grants- used for large broad programs such as welfare
- Project grants- used for projects such as medical research (cancer,aids) given to private government agencies
What 2 interstate compacts do all 50 states agree upon?
- Compact for the supervision of paroles and probationers
2. Compact on juvenile delinquents
Lists the “Ladder of laws” in the Supremacy Claus: Who administers this clause?
- US Constitution
- Acts of Congress/National laws
- State Constitutions
- City/ county laws (local)
The Supreme Court administers this clause
List examples of reasonable distinctions that states can use against residents of another state under the privileges and immunities clause?
- Can’t vote
- Can’t hold public office
- Can’t practice law, medicine, teach, etc (without state certifications)
- Charge more for college
Delegated Powers
Powers granted to the national government by the constitution such as power to coin money and regulate powers
Expressed Powers
Spelled out in words in the constitution powers
Implied powers
Suggested but not stated in the constitution
Inherent powers
Powers given to the national government because it is a government of a sovereign state- inherited
Concurrent Powers
Powers that the states and national government share
Reserved Powers
Powers not given the national government and not deemed to the states
Supremacy clause
Resolves conflicts between the two levels of government by setting up “ladder of laws”
Supreme Court
The “umpire” of the Supremacy clause that makes rulings and final decisions
Dual federalism
1788-1937 Government power was strictly divided by the states and national government (national government was small)
Cooperative Federalism
1937-today Established social programs to assist the states with regulations- national government became very large
Full faith and credit clause
States must recognize the validity of records documents and civil court decisions in other states
Privileges and immunities clause
Stats’s cannot draw reasonable distinctions (discrimination) between their own residents and residents of other states and must allow them to buy own rent or sell property or marry within its borders, move contracts
Extradition
The legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned by another state and prevents fugitives from escaping justice
Act of admission
Congress agrees to grant statehood
Interstate Compacts
Formal agreement entered into with the consent of Congress, between or among States, or between a State and a foreign state
Public Acts
Laws of a State
Judicial Proceedings
The outcome of court actions; damage awards, the probating of wills, divorce decrees, and so forth
