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Federalism - ✔✔A way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government have formal
authority over the same land and people. It is a system of shared power between units of government.
Unitary Government - ✔✔a central government that holds supreme power in a nation
Supremacy Clause - ✔✔Article VI of the Constitution, which makes the Constitution, national laws, and
treaties supreme over state laws when the national government is acting within its constitutional limits.
Tenth Amendment - ✔✔The constitutional amendment stating, "The powers not delegated to
the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states
respectively, or to the people."
McCulloch v. Maryland - ✔✔Supreme Court ruling (1819) confirming the supremacy of national
over state government
enumerated powers - ✔✔Powers specifically given to Congress in the Constitution; including the
power to collect taxes, coin money, regulate foreign and interstate commerce, and declare war.
implied powers - ✔✔powers of the federal government that go beyond those enumerated in the
Constitution
Elastic Clause - ✔✔The final paragraph of Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which authorizes
Congress to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out the enumerated powers.
Full Faith and Credit Clause - ✔✔A clause in Article IV, Section 1, of the Constitution requiring each
state to recognize the official documents and civil judgments rendered by the courts of other states.
, Extradition - ✔✔A legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of
one state to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed.
privileges an immunities clause - ✔✔The provision of the Constitution according citizens of each
state the privileges of citizens of any state in which they can happen to be
Dual Federalism - ✔✔A system of government in which both the states and the national
government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies.
Cooperative Federalism - ✔✔system in which both federal government and state governments
cooperate in solving problems. shared costs, federal guidelines, shared administration
Fiscal Federalism - ✔✔The pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system; it
is the cornerstone of the national government's relations with state and local governments.
project grants - ✔✔Federal categorical grants given for specific purposes and awarded on the basis
of the merits of applications
formula grants - ✔✔Federal categorical grants distributed according to a formula specified in
legislation or in administrative regulations.
block grants - ✔✔Federal grants given more or less automatically to states or communities to
support broad programs in areas such as community development and social services
Amendment I - ✔✔religion, speech, the press, assembly, petition
Amendment II
Right to bear arms - ✔✔A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the
right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III (three) - ✔✔No quartering of soldiers
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