AP Government chapter 3

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  1. 5. landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.
  2. 6. list of items found in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution that set forth the authority of Congress. In summary, Congress may exercise the powers that the Constitution grants it, subject to the individual rights listed in the Bill of Rights
  3. 12. The Fourteenth Amendment's Privileges and Immunities Clause has virtually no significance in Civil Rights law. The clause states, "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States."
  4. 13. the federal principle or system of government
  5. 14. grants, issued by the United States Congress, which may be spent only for narrowly defined purposes. Categorical grants are the main source of federal aid to state and local government, can be used only for specific purposes and for helping education or categories of state and local spending
  6. 15. Project grants are a type of categorical grant. Projects are grants given by the federal government to state and local governments on the basis of merit. The other type of categorical grant is a formula grant.
  7. 16. the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration
  8. 17. political arrangement in which power is divided between the federal and state governments in clearly defined terms, with state governments exercising those powers accorded to them without interference from the federal government.
  9. 19. landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland
  10. 20. the action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime
  11. 21. quantifiable elements, such as population, amount of tax effort, proportion of population unemployed or below poverty level, density of housing, or rate of infant mortality
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  1. 1. grant from a central government that a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services
  2. 2. powers not explicitly named in the Constitution but assumed to exist due to their being necessary to implement the expressed powers that are named in Article I.
  3. 3. an obligation under the U.S. Constitution of one state to recognize and give effect to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of her sister states
  4. 4. concept of federalism in which national, state, and local governments interact cooperatively and collectively to solve common problems, rather than making policies separately but more or less equally
  5. 7. model of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal government system. The national government's primary means of influencing state governments is giving money to states in the form of grants-in-aid.
  6. 8. clause within Article VI of the U.S. Constitution which dictates that federal law is the "supreme law of the land".
  7. 9. A unitary state is a state governed as one single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions (subnational units) exercise only powers that their central government chooses to delegate.
  8. 10. a statement in the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for carrying out the enumerated list of powers.
  9. 11. act of the United States Congress on July 10, 1953, to make recommendations for the solution of problems involving federal and state governments
  10. 18. section of the Bill of Rights that basically says that any power that is not given to the federal government is given to the people or the states.