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Ap Government Chap 3
Review for Ap Gov Chapter 3 by Honeyebee1617
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Federalisim | A way of organizing a nation so that more than two levels of law can have authoriety over the same land and people. Shared power between units of government. |
| Unitary Governments | A way of organizing a nation so that all of the power rests in the hands of the central government. All but 11 nations in the world have this type of government. |
| Intergovernmental Relations | The workings of the fedral system (the entire set of interactions among national,state, and local governments. |
| Supremacy Clause | Article 6 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. |
| 10th Ammendment | The Constitutional ammendment stating that " the powers not delegated to the U.S by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectivly, or to the people." |
| McCulloch vs Maryland | 1819 Supreme Court decision that stated that Congress had certain implied powers in addition to the enumerated powers found in the Constitution. |
| Enumerated Powers | Powers of the federal government that are specifically addressed in the Constitiution. For Congress these are listed in Article 1, section 8. |
| Implied Powers | Powers of the federal government that extend beyond those enumerated in the Constitution. |
| Elastic Clause | The final paragraph of Article 1, 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 | A clause in the Constitution requiring each state to recognize the offical documents and civil judgements rendered by the courts of other states. |
| Extradition | A legal process where any lleged ciminal is surrendered by the officals of one state to the officals of the state where the alleged crime took place. |
| Privliges and Immunities | A clause in the Constitution that states that according citizens of each state the privleges of citizens of other states. |
| Dual Federalisim | 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 Federalisim | A system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between the states and the national government. |
| Devolution | Transfering responsibility for policies from the federal government to state and locl government. |
| Fiscal Federalisim | The pattern of spending,taxing,and providing grants in the federal system:the cornerstone in the relationship between the national, local, and state government. |
| Catagorical Grants | Federal grants that can only be used for specific purposes of state and local spending. These grants come with strings attached, such as non discrimination provisions. |
| Project Grants: | Federal Catagorical grants given for specific purposes and awarded on the basis of merits of the applicant. |
| Formula Grants | Federal catagorical grants distributed according to a formula specified in the legeslation 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. |
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