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- 4. 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.
- 9. powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
- 11. created by an act of the United States Congress on July 10, 1953, to make recommendations for the solution of problems involving federal and state governments.
- 13. issued by the United States Congress, which may be spent only for narrowly defined purposes; 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.
- 14. the division of governmental functions and financial relations among levels of government.
- 15. a 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.
- 16. system of government in which power is divided between a national government and various regional governments.
- 18. a state governed as one single power in which the central government is ultimately supreme and any administrative divisions exercise only powers that their central government chooses to delegate.
- 20. funding programs that you do not compete for, even though you must submit an application and meet other specified requirements. They ensure that designated recipients will receive funds, and are usually administered and managed by State Administering Agencies.
- 21. establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
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- 1. the official process whereby one country transfers a suspected or convicted criminal to another country.
- 2. a 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.
- 3. addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state."
- 5. a grant from a central government that a local authority can allocate to a wide range of services.
- 6. prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner.
- 7. a 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.
- 8. the Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, and state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government.
- 10. Congress may exercise the powers that the Constitution grants it, subject to the individual rights listed in the Bill of Rights.
- 12. the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
- 17. 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.
- 19. grants given by the federal government to state and local governments on the basis of merit.