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America Gov2
Woods
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Full Faith and credit clause | The provision in Article IV, Section 1, of the Constitution requiring that each state normally honors the public acts and judicial decisions that take place in another state |
| Privileges and immunities clause | The provision from Article IV, Section 2, of the Constitution that a state cannot discriminate against someone from another state or give its own residents special privileges. |
| Dual Federalism | The system of government that preveiled in the U.S. from 1789-1937 in which most fundamental governmental powers were shared between the federal and state governments with the states exercising the most important powers |
| Cooperative Federalism | A type of federalism exisiting since the New Deal era in which grants-in-aid have been used strategically to encourage states and localities (without commanding them) to pursue nationally defined goals. Also known as international cooperation |
| Grant-in-aid | A general term for funds given by congress to state and local governments |
| Civil Liberties | The protectors of citizens from improper governmental action |
| Civil Rights | The Legal or moral claims that citizens are entitled to make on the government |
| Barron V. Baltimore | In paving its streets the city of baltimore had disposed of so much sand and gravel in the water near Barron's wharf that the value of the wharf for commercial purpose was virtually destroyed. |
| Establishment Clause | The first amendment clause that says, "congress shall make no law respecting an establishment o f religion". This clause means that a wall of separation exists between church and state |
| Free Exercise Clause | Protects the right to believe and practice whatever religion one choose; it also protects the right to be a nonbeliever. |
| Affirmative Action | A policy or program designed to redress historic injustices committed against specific groups by making special efforts to provide members of these groups with access to educational and employment opprotunities |
| Bicameral | Representation based on population in lower house and equal representation of states in the upper house. |
| Reserved Powers | Powers, derived from the tenth amendment of the Constitution, that are not specifically delegated to the national government or denied to the states; these powers are reserved to the states. |
| POlice Powers | Power reserved to the state to regulate the health, safety, welfare,and morals of its citizens. |
| Concurrent Powers | Authority possessed by both state and national government, such as the power to levy taxes |
| Roe V. Wade | The pro life amendment proposed in 1981. A battle over abortion. |
| Unfunded Mandates | National standards or programs imposed on state and local governments by the federal government without accompanying funding or reimbursement |
| Layer cake Federalism | The National and State government doesn't combine. |
| Marble Cake Federalism | The national and state government does combine. They cooperate and share having blurred the line between the national government ends and the state and local government begins. |
| McCulloch V Maryland | The issue was whether congress had the power to charter a bank. |
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