Exam 3: Federalism and the Separation of Powers

The separation of powers sought to limit the power of the government by:

When the Supreme Court ruled that a state could not tax the Bank of the United States in McCulloch v.Maryland,it said that when a state law conflicts with a federal law,the state law should be deemed invalid.This exemplifies the application of the:

Over the course of American history,how has the Supreme Court interpreted the commerce clause of the Constitution when making decisions concerning the power of the national government relative to state governments?

The system of government that prevailed in the United States from the writing of the Constitution to approximately the Great Depression could be most accurately characterized as ________ federalism.

Explain the trade-offs that exist between concentrating power in the hands of the federal government and dispersing power across the 50 states.

Late in the nineteenth century,when the national government sought to use its power to regulate the economy rather than merely promote economic development,the concept of interstate commerce began to operate more as a:

After 1937,the Supreme Court threw out the old distinction between interstate and intrastate commerce.

The framers considered the presidency to be the most important branch in American government.

The doctrine that allowed the national government to expand considerably the scope of its authority through the Supreme Court's expansive interpretation of delegated powers was based on the ________ clause.

The fact that a tie vote in the Senate is broken by the vice president is an example of:

Would Americans want each state to set its own air and water pollution control policies? Why or why not?

How has the national government used grants-in-aid financing to exercise influence over state and local governments?

Powers reserved to the government to regulate the health,safety,and morals of its citizens are known as ________ powers.

In addition to expressed and implied powers,the Constitution affirmed the power of the national government in the:

Limiting government by dividing it into two levels,national and state,each with sufficient independence to compete with the other,is called:

Discuss the various types of checks and balances built into the Constitution.

A system of government in which fundamental governmental powers are shared between the federal and state governments and in which the states exercise the most important powers is known as:

Which of these is NOT an example of an unfunded mandate imposed on the states by the federal government?

Article IV,Section 2,of the Constitution prohibits a state from discriminating against someone from another state or giving special advantages to its own residents.That section is referred to as the ________ clause.

Local governments have always been mere conveniences of the states.