Federalism

Article VI of the U.S. Constitution establishes that federal law is __________ in conflicts between federal and state law.

• illustrative

• dissuasive

• secondary

• supreme

The __________ Amendment says that those powers not given to the federal government and not prohibited to the states by the Constitution are reserved for the states and the people.

• Eighth

• Tenth

• Eleventh

• Fourteenth

Which clause in the Constitution ensures that judicial decrees and contracts made in one state will be binding and enforceable in another?

• commerce

• full faith and credit

• due process

• equal protection

In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court held that Congress has broad authority to regulate __________.

• interstate commerce

• education

• the national bank

• religion

The Constitution says that states are required to return a person charged with a crime in another state to that state for trial or imprisonment, a practice called __________.

• voir dire

• sequestration

• change of venue

• extradition

In __________, powers are shared by the federal and state governments in a marble-cake fashion.

• cooperative federalism

• constitutional government

• a federal government system

• unified government

In the 1984 elections, the Republican Party advocated for a(n) __________ of national government authority to state governments.

• excavation

• devolution

• evolution

• critical evaluation

Education and transportation policies are primarily state responsibilities. However, under __________ the federal government has also been making policy in these areas.

• cooperative federalism

• constitutional government

• a federal government system

• unified government

What model of federalism is sometimes described metaphorically as a marble cake?

• cooperative federalism

• dual federalism

• progressive federalism

• new federalism

Which type of federalism is characterized by a system of state and national governments with separate but distinct authority?

• combined

• cooperative

• dual

• progressive