Chapter 3: Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. power, power reserved to the state government to regulate the health, safety, and morals of its citizens
  2. 4. a system of government in which power is divided, by a constitution, between a central government and regional governments
  3. 5. grants, congressional grants given to states and localities on the condition that expenditures be limited to a problem or group specified by law
  4. 7. programs through which Congress provides money to state and local governments on the condition that the funds be employed for purposes defined by the federal government
  5. 8. the principle that allows the national government to override state or local actions in certain policy areas; in foreign policy, the willingness to strike first in order to prevent an enemy attack
  6. 10. federalism, a type of federalism existing since the New Deal era in which grants-in-aid have been used strategically to encourage states and localities (without commanding them) to pursue nationally defined goals; also known as intergovernmental cooperation
  7. 11. powers, 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
  8. 12. faith and credit clause, 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
  9. 15. powers, specific powers granted by the Constitution to Congress (Article I, Section 8) and to the president (Article II)
  10. 16. rule, power delegated by the state to a local unit of government to manage its own affairs
  11. 17. federalism, the system of government that prevailed in the United States from 1789 to 1937 in which most fundamental governmental powers were shared between the federal and state governments
  12. 18. and proper clause, 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
  13. 19. rights, the principle that the states should oppose the increasing authority of the national government; this principle was most popular in the period before the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. relations, the processes by which the three levels of American government (national, state, local) negotiate and compromise over policy responsibility
  2. 3. system, a centralized government system in which lower levels of government have little power independent of the national government
  3. 5. clause, Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which delegates to Congress the power "to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States and with the Indian tribes"; this clause was interpreted by the Supreme Court in favor of national power over the economy
  4. 6. powers, authority possessed by both state and national governments, such as the power to levy taxes
  5. 9. and immunities clause, provision, from Article IV, Section 2, of the Constitution, that a state cannot discriminate against someone from another state or give its own residents special privileges
  6. 13. federalism, a form of federalism in which Congress imposes legislation on states and localities, requiring them to meet national standards
  7. 14. powers, powers, derived from the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution, that are not specifically delegated to the national government or denied to the states