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- 2. Powers specifically given to the federal government by the US Constitution, for example, the authority to print money.
- 5. Constitution's requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
- 7. Network of political, financial, and administrative relationships between units of the federal government and those of state and local governments.
- 10. The surrender of an accused or convicted person by one state or country to another (usually under the provisions of a statute or treaty)
- 12. powers that congress has that are specifically listed in the constitution spelled out expressly.
- 14. An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.
- 15. The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government. (Power that belongs to the National Government because it is the government of the sovereign state within the world community)
- 16. One type of federal grants-in-aid for some particular but broadly defined area of public policy
- 17. An act creating a new state
- 18. A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments
- 19. Giving money back to the state and local government with no strings attached
- 20. Powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone
- 21. of powers Basic principle of federalism; the constitutional provisions by which governmental powers are divided on a geographic basis (in the United States, between the National Government and the States).
- 22. Constitutional agreement by which the national government is created by and relies on subnational governments for its authority
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- 1. Grants of federal money or other resources to the states or their cities, counties, and other local units.
- 3. Thought that Government should be free of parties
- 4. Grant for which Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose
- 6. Grants made to States, private agencies for projects
- 8. No State can draw unreasonable distinctions between its own residents and those persons who happen to live in other States
- 9. Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution reasonably suggested.
- 11. powers saved for the states
- 13. Powers that are shared by both the Nationaly and state governments
- 20. The first step in the state admission procedure which enables the people of a territory to prepare a constitution
- 23. Passing down of responsibilities from the national government to the states.