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Unit 3 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Block Grant | A grant-in-aid for a broadly defined policy area, whose funding amount is typically based on a formula |
| Categorical Formula Grant | A grant-in-aid for a narrowly defined purpose, whose dollar value is based on a formula |
| Categorical Project Grant | A grant-in-aid for a narrowly defined purpose for which governments compete with each other by proposing specific projects |
| Centralized Federalism | Intergovernmental relations in which the national government imposes its policy preferences on state and local governments |
| Commerce Clause | Article l clause that delegates to Congress the power to regulate interstate and international commerce interactions |
| Concurrent Power | Basic governing functions that are exercised by the national and state governments independently, and at the same time, including the power to make policy, raise revenue, implement policies, and establish courts |
| Confederal System | A government structure in which several independent sovereign states agree to cooperate on specified policy matters by creating a central governing body; each sovereign state retains ultimate authority over other governmental matters within its borders |
| Cooperative Federalism | Intergovernmental regulations in which the national government supports state governments efforts to address the domestic matters reserved to them |
| Devolution | The process whereby the national government returns policy responsibilities to state or local governments |
| Dual Federalism | The initial model of national and state relations in which the national government takes care of its enumerated powers while the state governments independently take care of their reserved powers |
| Enumerated Powers | The powers of the national government that are listed in the constitution |
| Extradition | The return of the individuals accused of a crime to the state In which the crime was committed upon the request of that states governor |
| Federal System | A governmental structure with two levels of government in which each level has sovereignty over different policy matters and geographic areas; a system of government with dual Sovereignty |
| Fiscal Federalism | The relationship between the national government and state and local governments whereby the national government provides Grant money to state and local governments |
| Full Faith and Credit Clause | The constitutional clause that requires states to comply with and uphold the public acts, records, and judicial decisions of other states |
| Grant-In- Aid | The transfer of money from one government to another government that does not need to be paid back |
| Horizontal Federalism | The state-to-state relationships created by the U.S. constitution |
| Implied Powers | The powers of the national government that are not enumerated in the constitution but that congress claims are necessary and proper for the national government to fulfill it enumerated powers in accordance with the necessary and proper clause |
| Intergovernmental Relations | The interactions of two or more governments in their collective efforts to provide goods and services to the people they each serve |
| Interstate Compacts | Agreements between states that Congress has the authority to review and reject |
| Judicial Federalism | States' courts use of their state constitutions to determine citizens'rights, particularly when state constitutions guarantee greater protections than does the U.S. constitution |
| Mandate | Clauses in legislation that direct state and local government to comply with national legislation and national standards |
| Matching Funds Requirement | A Grant requirement that obligates the government receiving the Grant to spend some of its own money to match a specified percentage of the Grant money provided |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | The 1819 case that established that the necessary and proper clause justifies broad understanding of enumerated powers |
| Necessary and Proper Clause | A clause in Article l, section 8, of the constitution that gives Congress the power to do whatever it deems necessary and constitutional to meet its enumerated obligations; the basis for the implied powers |
| Nullification | A legal theory that state governments have the authority to invalidate national actions they deem unconstitutional |
| Partisan Federalism | The phenomenon of preference for state or national government action depending on policy substance and partisan makeup of government at the other levels |
| Police powers | The states reserved powers to protect the health, safety, lives, and properties of residents in a states |
| Preemption | The constitutionally based principle that allows a national law to supersede state or local laws |
| Privileges and Immunities Clause | The constitution's requirement that a states extend to other states' citizens the privileges and Immunities it provides for its citizens |
| Reserved Powers | The matters referred to in thee tenth Amendment over which states retain sovereignty |
| Supreme Law of the Land | The U.S. Constitutions description of its own authority, meaning that all laws made by government within the united states must be in compliance with the constitution |
| Unitary System | A governmental system in which one central government is the sovereign government and it creates other, regional government to which it delegates some governing powers and responsibilities; however the central government retains ultimate authority |
| Waivers | Exemptions from particular conditions normally attached to grants |
| United States v. Lopez | In this court case, the supreme court rejected the national governments claim that its Gun-Free- School Zones Act of 1990 was a necessary and proper means to regulate interstate commerce. The court found it unconstitutional. |
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