Test 2

Question 1

Total # of amendment to the US Constitution?

Answer 1

27

Question 2

18th Amendment

Answer 2

prohibited the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors”

Question 3

19th Amendment

Answer 3

granted women the right to vote

Question 4

16th Amendment

Answer 4

established Congress’s right to impose a Federal income tax.

Question 5

26th Amendment

Answer 5

guaranteed the right to vote to citizens 18 years of age and older

Question 6

22nd Amendment

Answer 6

No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice

Question 7

15th Amendment

Answer 7

granted African American men the right to vote

Question 8

13th Amendment

Answer 8

forever abolished slavery as an institution in all U.S. states and territories

Question 9

How does the formal amendment process illustrate federalism?

Answer 9

by taking place at the national level and ratification at the state level.

Question 10

What does the Bill of Right Guarantee?

Answer 10

Individual Freedoms

Question 11

What does the Bill of Right Guarantee?

Answer 11

Individual Freedoms

Question 12

Basic Legislation

Answer 12

Congress can pass laws that spell out some of the Constitution’s brief provisions

Question 13

Executive action

Answer 13

the proposal, drafting, development, consideration, amendment, adoption, approval, promulgation, issuance, modification, rejection, or postponement by an executive agency or official of legislation or executive orders issued by the Governor.

Question 14

Party Practices

Answer 14

by holding political conventions, organizing Congress along party lines, and injecting party politics in the process of presidential appointments

Question 15

Court Decisions

Answer 15

a judicial determination of parties’ rights and obligations reached by a court based on facts and law.

Question 16

Custom

Answer 16

a practice common to many or to a particular place or institution

Question 17

Where in the Constitution is the division of powers spelled out?

Answer 17

Bill of Rights

Question 18

Marbury V Madison

Answer 18

Established judicial review

Question 19

Intrastate Compacts

Answer 19

contracts between two or more states creating an agreement on a particular policy issue, adopting a certain standard or cooperating on regional or national matters

Question 20

Federalism

Answer 20

a system of government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government.

Question 21

Senatorial Courtesy

Answer 21

an agreement among senators to not vote for a nominee opposed by senator’s from nominee’s home state.

Question 22

Executive agreement

Answer 22

an agreement between the United States and a foreign government that is less formal than a treaty and is not subject to the constitutional requirement for ratification by two-thirds of the U.S. Senate.

Question 23

Treaty

Answer 23

a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.

Question 24

Privileges and Immunities

Answer 24

protects fundamental rights of individual citizens and restrains state efforts to discriminate

Question 25

Extradition

Answer 25

the removal of a person from a requested state to a requesting state for criminal prosecution or punishment.

Question 26

Full Faith and Credit Clause

Answer 26

shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State

Question 27

Expressed Powers

Answer 27

specifically granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution

Question 28

Implied powers

Answer 28

political powers granted to the United States government that aren't explicitly stated in the Constitution

Question 29

Inherent powers

Answer 29

those powers over and beyond those explicitly spelled out in the Constitution or which can reasonably be implied from express grants.

Question 30

Concurrent powers

Answer 30

powers which are shared by both the federal government and state governments.

Question 31

North Carolina V Williams

Answer 31

the Court held that the federal government determines marriage and divorce statuses between state lines.

Question 32

Block Grants

Answer 32

awarded by the Federal government to state and local governments for broadly defined purposes

Question 33

Enabling Act

Answer 33

a piece of legislation by which a legislative body grants an entity which depends on it the power to take certain actions.

Question 34

Revenue Act

Answer 34

increased taxes and the number of Americans subject to the income tax

Question 35

Act of admission

Answer 35

an act of admitting : the fact or state of being admitted: such as. : the act of allowing something for consideration before a court.

Question 36

Three Obligations the Constitution places on the Federal Government benefit states are

Answer 36

Guarantee Union a Republican Form of Government. Protect each of them [States] from invasion and internal disorder. Respect the territorial integrity of each of the States.

Question 37

A Republican form of Government is a what?

Answer 37

Representative

Question 38

State Aid Offered to the national government

Answer 38

1. Local officials conduct national elections. 2. State courts supervise the Naturalization Process. 3.Local police cooperate with the F.B.I.

Question 39

What is the Process for admitting new states?

Answer 39

If the President signs the act, the state is admitted to the Union.

Question 40

Grant-in-aid Program

Answer 40

federal money granted to a recipient to fund a project or program.

Question 41

Rule of law

Answer 41

the restriction of the arbitrary exercise of power by subordinating it to well-defined and established laws.

Question 42

Reserved powers

Answer 42

a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.

Question 43

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 43

the idea that government is authorized by citizens and influenced by what they want.

Question 44

Who is responsible for setting up local public schools?

Answer 44

The State

Question 45

Why is it necessary to be able to amend to Constitution?

Answer 45

to meet the nation's needs, reflect the changing times, and address concerns or structural elements they had not anticipated.

Question 46

What is a Categorical Grant.

Answer 46

federal grants given to state and local governments to encourage their cooperation in implementing specific purposes and programs.