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Unit 1 Vocabulary

TermDefinition
Advice and Consent Provided by senate on presidential appointments.
Block Grants Set amt of $ states can receive and states have more general instructions
Categorical Grants Matching funds formula and feds control how money is spent
Checks and Balances Each branch of government is able to keep the other branch in line.
Compact Theory 13 states create a federal government that enters a contract by jurisdiction.
Concurrent Powers Shared between national and state government only.
Cooperative Federalism Intermingled relationships among the federal, state, and local governments to deliver services to the states
Delegated Powers Powers given to the national government only.
Devolution Devolving some of the responsibilities assumed by federal government over the years back onto the states.
Duel Federalism States and natl relatively equal and each supreme in own domain
Electoral College Elected court by states to vote on president.
Enumerated Powers To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers. Ex: Power to tax, borrow money, raise an army, create postal system, address piracy on seas, define immigration and naturalization process, etc.
Exatradition Obligates states to deliver captured fugitive criminals back to the state where the crime was committed.
Implied Powers Unlisted, but assumed by elastic clause and must be related to enumerated powers.
Pocket Veto President receives bill at the end of legislative session and refuses to sign it.
Police Powers Power to create or enforce laws on health, safety, and morals.
Popular Soverignty People have control and have power.
Reserved Powers Powers given to the state government only.
Selective Exclusiveness Doctrine asserting within the commodity required a national reform rule, only congress may regulate.
Separation of Powers Defining responsibilities of each branch.
Strict Constitutionist Believes constitution should be taken and followed literally.
Unitary Government The most common type of government. (2/3 of all nations). National government holds all power. Any lower-level government only holds power when the national government gives them power.
Commerce Clause Congress has the ability to regulate commerce with other nations and several states.
Elastic Clause Congress has the power to makes laws that are necessary and proper to be carried into execution.
Full Faith and Credit Clause Every state government must respect the others as well as their laws.
Privileges and Immunities Clause Citizens of each state has the same rights and privileges in every other state.
Supremacy Clause The constitution should be the law of the land.
Tenth Amendment Delegated and reserved powers.
Gibbons v. Ogden Definition of commerce.
Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. US Whether federal government has the right to force hotel owner to integrate.
Marbury v. Madison Judicial review
South Dakota v. Dole Set drinking age to 21 by funding money towards roads.
Texas v. Johnson Determines whether burning of the flag is freedom of expression.
US v. Lopez Gun-free zone in school district, government cannot control school district.
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