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Midterm Review IV
Question | Answer |
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Requirements imposed on states | Mandates |
Clause that gives legislative powers to the Congress in order to carry out its enumerated powers | Necessary and Proper (or elastic) |
Joint planning and decision making among all levels of government; the state has a greater reliance on federally-funded programs such as Medicare and MedicaidJ | Creative Federalism |
Clause that has been used by Congress to justify much of its civil rights legislation | Commerce |
Type of federalism in which the federal government is more intrusive in the domain of state governments; the federal and state levels of government share areas of public policy; responsibilities are mingled between the levels of government | Cooperative Federalism |
A constitutional theory that the national government and the state governments each have defined areas of authority especially over commerce Theory | Dual Federalism |
The pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system | Fiscal Federalism |
The transfer of responsibility from the national to the state government with certain restrictions if a state does not meet the criteria of a specific requirement; associated with Nixon and Reagan | New or Competitive Federalism |
Clause that specifies that the United States Constitution and the laws and treaties made under it will predominate if there is a conflict with state laws | Supremacy |
Obligation imposed on the state without any compensatory funding provided | Unfunded Mandate |