Government - Chapter 4

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

• 8th amendment

• 9th amendment

• 10th amendment

• 11th amendment

an act creating a new state

• enabling act

• act of admission

• interstate commerce

• interstate compact

Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose or category; ADVANTAGE: hard to abuse; DISADVANTAGE: states are limited in how they can use the money - even if they need it more for another purpose, they can use the money ONLY for the purpose specified by the federal government

• cooperative federalism

• block grant

• project grant

• categorical grant

A system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states and the national government. They may also share costs, administration, and even blame for programs that work poorly; evolved naturally and practiced throughout history, as shown by Northwest Ordinance, but popular view in the 20th and 21 centuries

• cooperative federalism

• federalism

• reserved powers

• delegated powers

the total amount owed based on borrowing over time; accumulates as the result of deficit spending

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

• revenue sharing

• debt

• deficit

the yearly shortfall between revenue and expenditures; the difference in what's spent and what's taken in

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

• revenue sharing

• debt

• deficit

Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example, the authority to print money.

• delegated powers

• division of powers

• exclusive powers

• implied powers

FEDERALISM; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are DIVIDED on a geographic basis between nation and states

• delegated powers

• division of powers

• federalism

• inherent powers

AKA "Necessary and Proper" Clause; Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution gives Congress the right to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out the powers expressed in the other clauses

• Printz v. US

• Privileges & Immunities Clause

• Elastic Clause

• Full Faith and Credit Clause

the first step in the state admission procedure which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution

• act of admission

• Enabling Act

• steps in admitting a new state

• supremacy clause