test 3 Flashcards
In a federal system, the constitution divides authority between which of the following
two or more distinct levels of government
A confederation is a form of government best described as which of the following
. lower-level governments possess primary authority
In unitary government systems which of the following is true
the national government monopolizes constitutional authority
In a famous decision by Judge John E. Dillon, “Dillon’s Rule” clarified which of the following
local governments are mere creatures of the state
Dual federalism leaves the states and the national government to preside over which of the following
mutually exclusive spheres of sovereignty
______ occurs when national and state governments jointly supply services to the citizenry
shared federalism
The Constitution opened the door to nationalization by granting the federal government ultimate power to determine within certain bounds which of the following
the extent of its authority over the states
. The Seventeenth Amendment, which came about amid persistent and widespread charges of bribery, mandated which of the following
the direct and popular election of senators
Under what circumnstances could Congress destroy an established state by, for example, cutting it in half to create a new state
only with the consent of the established state
The original intent of the supremacy clause was to ensure which of the following
the national government would prevail over states when both governments were acting in a constitutionally correct manner
The commerce clause, the elastic clause, the supremacy clause, and the Tenth Amendment are all examples of which of the following
the constitutional provisions for federalism
In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), John Marshall determined the supremacy clause did which of the following
. it implicitly exempted the federal government from state taxes
When the Supreme Court ruled in Gibbons v. Ogden that only Congress possessed the authority to regulate interstate commerce, it did which of the following
with McCulloch v. Maryland, it created a powerful precedent that allowed future national policy to develop free of the constraints of state government
The post–Civil War passage of the Fourteenth Amendment allowed later courts to use its due process clause to do which of the following:
strike down state laws that violated federal rights
When modern state governments have encountered the same dilemmas of collective action that prompted their eighteenth-century counterparts to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, they have solved the dilemmas by shifting responsibility from which of the following
from the state to federal authorities
The passage of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act, which standardized state driver’s licenses for interstate truckers, is an example of the federal government doing which of the following
solving a coordination problem among the states
Which of the following are two compelling strategic reasons for a group to prefer national policy to state policy
the national arena may be the only place in which it can hope to prevail and it is easier to lobby Congress than the fifty state legislatures
. Conflicts arising over the environment frequently pit local resource users who bear the cost of environmental regulations against which of the following
nationally organized environmental constituencies that do not
As Madison points out in Federalist No. 10, since the states and the national government combine the citizenry’s preferences into different groupings, the two levels of government do which of the following
they may adopt different, even opposite, policies to address the same problem
Federalism presents opportunities for two kinds of majorities to pursue their interests in competition with each other. These majorities are which of the following
state and national
Today’s constitutional litigation over federalism typically concerns which of the following direct efforts
efforts by the federal government to regulate the activities of state and local governments and their employees
Article IV of the Constitution requires that the national government ensure which of the following
that all states adhere to a republican form of government
The so-called “elastic clause” of Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution provides that Congress can “make all Laws which shall be . . .
. . . necessary and proper for carrying into Execution” the foregoing enumerated powers
Which of the following best describes scholars who argue that the Tenth Amendment—which provides that the powers not taken by the national government belong to the states—is little more than a truism
they point to the powerful combination of the supremacy clause and the elastic clause to support their argument
