Exam 3: Federalism and the Separation of Powers

When President Nixon refused to respond to a subpoena to make available his infamous White House tapes as evidence in a criminal prosecution,the Supreme Court declared his refusal unconstitutional.This court action limited the president's right to

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

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

The Unfunded Mandate Reform Act (UMRA) limits the number of unfunded mandates Congress may place on states in a given year.

The framers intended for the judicial branch to be the preeminent branch,regulating and dictating the behavior of the other two branches.

Review of the constitutionality of acts of the president or Congress by the U.S.Supreme Court has been relatively routine and common.

President Ronald Reagan worked to reduce federal control over state policy by converting federal programs to block grants.

The main issue in the 1824 case Gibbons v.Ogden was the question of the state of New York's power to grant a monopoly to

Mechanisms through which each branch of government participates in and influences the activities of the other branches are referred to as

Should the United States consider abolishing the federal system to facilitate a more unified response to modern problems? Why or why not?

According to the __________ clause,if a couple marries in Texas as regulated by state law,then Missouri must also recognize that marriage even though the couple was not married under Missouri state law.

The power delegated by the state to a local unit of government to manage its own affairs is called

President Obama's no-strings-attached stimulus spending in 2009 marked a significant shift away from regulated federalism.

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

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

Over the course of American history,how has the Supreme Court interpreted the interstate commerce clause of Article I,Section 8?

The system of government in which a constitution divides power between a central government and regional governments is known as

The necessary and proper clause allowed the national government to expand considerably the scope of its authority,although the process was a slow one.

Grant programs in which a set of distributive criteria established by law is used to determine the amount of federal funds that a state or local government will receive are known as __________ grants.

Morton Grodzins,a noted scholar of federalism,characterized the shift to post-New Deal cooperative federalism as a move from