Federalism

Article 1 Section 8 is also known as?

• Supremacy Clause

• Necessary and Proper Clause

• Commerce Clause

• Federalism Clause

The division of powers and functions between the national government and state governments is the definition of?

• authority

• democracy

• federalism

• autocracy

Most of the rules and regulations Americans face in their daily lives are set by?

• state and local governments

• local governments

• local and federal governments

• federal government

Over the course of American history, the federal government has ___________ compared with state government.

• grown weaker

• stayed about the same

• shrinked

• grown stronger

Specific powers provided to the national government in the US Constitution are called?

• expressed powers

• enumerated powers

• reserved powers

• given powers

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government lacked which of the following powers?

• the power to coin and borrow money

• the power to regulate interstate commerce

• the power to draft an army or navy

• the power to declare war

Which of the following statements about federalism is accurate?

• The national government can abolish state governments.

• Neither the national nor state governments has the right to abolish the other.

• State governments can abolish the national government.

A system in which the national government alone has sovereignty (final governing authority) is called a ______ system.

• unitary

• dispersed

• confederate

• federal

States alone are sovereign in a

• democracy

• confederacy

• republic

• unitary system

True or false: Prior to the passage of the United States Constitution, many of the states governed under their own state constitutions that dated back to the colonial era.

• True

• False