Jess Evans - Chapter 4
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- 3. a series of initiatives aimed at eliminating poverty and social inequality.
- 5. were equal authorities operating within their own spheres of influence
- 8. include money and other resources that the national government provides to pay for state and local activities.
- 11. Constitution lists powers granted to the national government.
- 13. governments that conduct the business of a sovereign nation.
- 14. The contract was a
- 15. nullify national laws that they believed contradicted or clashed with
- 16. this trend by returning authority to state governments.
- 19. to achieve specific goals within 100 days of taking office.Central to the Contract with America was the idea of returning power to states
- 20. Today the power of the national government to influence state policies occurs
- 21. or a power held by the national government and the state governments at the same time
- 22. 1981, as part of a major revision of the federal budget, Congress combined many categorical grants into nine
- 23. many political leaders worked to
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- 1. interests.
- 2. ensures that extradition can take place.
- 3. These grants can only be used for a specific purpose, or category, of state and local spending, such as the building of a new airport or crime-fighting in a certain area.
- 4. Since the national and state governments worked together to meet the crisis, federalism under the New Deal was known as
- 6. or powers that historically have been recognized as naturally belonging to
- 7. Politicians in some southern states believed that states had the right
- 9. implied powers are not specifically listed in the Constitution, but they are logical extensions of
- 10. the belong to the states because the Constitution neither delegates these powers to the national government nor prohibits them to the states.
- 12. The idea that states had the right to separate themselves from the Union
- 17. powers.
- 18. both state and national