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the federal system
chapter 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are delegated powers? | powers the constitution grants or delegates to the national government |
| what are express powers? | powers directly stated in the constitution |
| What are implied powers? | powers that the government requires to carry out the express constitutional powers |
| What are the elastic clause? | gives congress the right to make all laws "necessary & proper" to carry out the powers expressed in the other clauses of artice 1 |
| what are inherent powers? | powers that the national government may excercise simply because it is a government |
| What are reserved powers? | powers that belong strictly to the states |
| What are the supremacy clause? | a statement in article IV of the constituion stateting that laws passed by congress and treaties of the united states "shall be the supreme law of the land" |
| what are concurrent powers? | powers that both the national government and the states have |
| what are the enabling act? | the first step in the states admissions powers procedure which enable the people of a territory to prepare a constitution |
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