The article of the Constitution that details the Judicial Branch

The article of the Constitution that details the Amendment process

The article of the Constitution that establishes the Constitution as the supreme law of the land

The article of the Constitution that details the Executive Branch

Where are the powers of Congress enumerated (listed)?

The number of states that needed to ratify the Constitution in order for it to be ordained/established?

The description of relations among the states is located in

The form of government that is required of the states by the Constitution

The first ten changes to the Constitution were called

The branch of government that writes the laws is called the...

The branch of government that enforces the law is called the...

The branch of government that interprets the law is called the...

What constitutional principle is being referenced by the following quote from the Constitution. “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech, press, assembly, or petition.”

What constitutional principle is being referenced in the following quote: “The President shall have the power to make appointments with the advice and consent of the Senate.”

Under federalism, how is power divided?

Powers that are given to the state governments in 10th Amendment to the Constitution.

Who is the head of the executive branch?

Who makes final decisions regarding the interpretation of the Constitution?

Which amendment of the Constitution gives states reserved powers?

The Full Faith and Credit Clause of Article IV ensures that states honor official records from other states.

If a state wants to break up into smaller pieces, it can do so without the approval of Congress.

According to Article IV, states must return fugitives to the state where the crime was committed.

According to Article IV, states can have any form of government it chooses.

Allows Congress to make any laws that they need to for carrying out their enumerated (expressed) powers

Accords citizens of each state most of the rights of citizens of other states

Gives the Constitution precedent over state laws and state constitutions

Requires judicial decrees and contracts (court rulings) made in one state will be honored and enforced in any other state

Congress cannot pass a law singling out a person for punishment without trial.

States cannot pass laws voiding or impairing contracts (including debt).

Congress can regulate trade between nations, between states, and between Native American tribes.

Powers the government has because it is the government

Punish law breakers

Levy taxes (make and collect)

Powers that belong to the state governments are known as

Powers that belong to the federal government are known as

The power to coin money

The power to maintain army and navy

The power to declare war

The power to regulate trade between states and with foreign nations

The power to establish courts

The power to enforce laws

The power to borrow money

the power to regulate trade within a state

the power to conduct elections

The power to establish local governments

The power to establish schools

The power to create marriage laws

What is Federalism?

In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court held that Congress has broad authority to regulate __________.

The Constitution says that states are required to return a person charged with a crime in another state to that state for trial or imprisonment, a practice called __________.

In __________, powers are shared by the federal and state governments in a marble-cake fashion.

In the 1984 elections, the Republican Party advocated for a(n) __________ of national government authority to state governments.

Which type of federalism is characterized by a system of state and national governments with separate but distinct authority?

What is a mandate?

An advantage of federalism is that it allows states to __________.

a system of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal systems

the modern era in federalism in which authority that rested with the national government is being returned to the states; also called 'devolution'

the period in which the national government channeled federal funds to local governments and citizen groups to address problems that states could or would not address; also called 'picket fence' federalism

the idea that a state had the right to separate from the Union

the belief that the states had the right to cancel federal laws with which they disagreed

federal grants given to state and local governments for broad purposes, such as welfare, community development, public health, or education

a federal grant that can only be used for a specific purpose, or category, of state and local spending; these grants usually require that the state contribute money in addition to the national money