Krutz Chapter 3 Vocabulary

Petition that enables someone in custody to petition a judge to determine whether that person's detention is legal

• writ of haebeas corpus

• concurrent powers

• unfunded mandates

• ex post facto laws

Legislative action declaring someone guilty without a trial

• bill of attainder

• writ of habeas corpus

• priviledges & immunities clause

• full faith & credit clause

Strategy in which interest groups selected the level and branch of government they calculate will be the most receptive

• venue shopping

• unfunded mandates

• general revenue sharing

• devolution

Centralized system of government by which the subnational government is dependent on the central government

• unitary system

• cooperative federalism

• new federalism

• general revenue sharing

Federal laws & regulations that impose obligations on state & local governments without fully compensating them for the costs of implementation

• unfunded mandates

• nullification

• creeping federalism

• categorical grant

Doctrine promoted by John Calhoun of SC; asserting that if a state deems a federal law unconstitutional, it can do away with it within its borders

• nullification

• ex post facto law

• full faith & credit clause

• immigration federalism

• elastic clause

Dynamic in which states compete to attract business by lowering taxes & regulations, often to workers' detriment

• race-to-the-bottom

• elastic clause

• ex post facto law

• block grant

• categorical grant

found in Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution; prohibits states from discriminating agaist out of staters by denying such guarantees as access to courts, legal protection & property & travel rights

• priviledges & immunities clause

• cooperative federalism

• dual federalism

• elastic clause

• general revenue sharing

Type of federalism premised on the idea that the decentralization of policies enhances administrative efficiency, reduces overall public spending & improves outcomes

• new federalism

• cooperative federalism

• dual federalism

• immigration federalism

Law that criminalizes an act retroactively; prohibited under the Constitution

• ex post facto law

• elastic clause

• creeping categorization

• full faith & credit clause