Chapter 3 GOVT

a system of government in which power is divided, by a constitution, between a central government and regional governments

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Dictatorship
• Federalism

a centralized government system in which lower levels of government have little power independent of the national government

• Unitary system
• Decentralized system
• Confederate system
• Federal system

the processes by which the three levels of American government (national, state, local) negotiate and compromise over policy responsibility

• Decentralization

• State sovereignty and autonomy
• National supremacy

• intergovernmental relations

specific powers granted by the Constitution to Congress (Article I, Section 8) and to the president (Article II)

• executive orders

• expressed powers

• Vetoing legislation

powers derived from the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution; such powers are not specifically expressed but are implied through the expansive interpretation of delegated powers

• Reserved powers
• Implied powers
• Enumerated powers
• Expressed powers

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which provides Congress with the authority to make all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out its expressed powers

• Supremacy Clause
• Commerce Clause
• Elastic Clause
• Necessary and Proper Clause

powers, derived from the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, that are not specifically delegated to the national government or denied to the states

• Enumerated powers
• Concurrent powers
• Implied powers
• Reserved powers

authority possessed by both state and national governments, such as the power to levy taxes

• reserved powers
• federal powers
• exclusive powers
• concurrent powers

power reserved to the state government to regulate the health, safety, and morals of its citizens

• police power
• judicial review
• executive authority
• federal power

provision from Article IV, Section 1, of the Constitution requiring that the states normally honor the public acts and judicial decisions that take place in another state

• Full Faith and Credit Clause
• Supremacy Clause
• Interstate Commerce Clause
• Equal Protection Clause