State and Local Government Vocabulary Review

When the powers are shared by and divided between the national government and the state governments

• Federal System

• Confederal System

• Democracy

• Reserved Powers

Powers given only to the states; These powers come from the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.

• Expressed Powers

• Reserved Powers

• Concurrent Powers

• Implied Powers

Powers shared by the national and state governments

• Reserved Powers

• Concurrent Powers

• Implied Powers

• Expressed Powers

Limits state power

–States that the Constitution and all federal laws “shall be the supreme Law of the Land”

–If a state law conflicts with the Constitution or a federal law, the state law is thrown out.

• Supremacy Clause

• Elastic Clause

• Equal Protection Clause

• Santa Claus

–Money used to meet goals set by Congress in areas, such as education and health care

• grants-in-aid

• unfunded mandate

• federal mandate

• economic solution

–Laws that direct states to do something without helping to pay for it

• grants-in-aid

• unfunded mandate

• funded mandate

• funds-in-aid

–A person charged with a crime who has fled to another state is returned to the state where the crime was committed

• Extradition

• Expulsion

• Extracted

• Ex post facto

–During a time of crisis, the meeting of a legislature to address an emergency

• special session

• regular session

• unfunded mandate

• extra session

The head of state government

• President

• Governor

• Lieutenant

• Donald Trump

–When a Governor vetoes part of a bill rather than the whole law

• line-item veto

• full veto

• section veto

• ratify