Exam 3: Federalism

Which amendment prohibits federal and state courts and federal administrative agencies from hearing cases in which a private party names a state as a defendant without the state's consent?

Of the following,which is a power denied to states by the Constitution?

Which of the following was the earliest major Supreme Court decision to define the relationship between the federal and state governments?

What is a mandate?

__________ grants typically allocate federal dollars based on population.

Which of the following is the best definition of federalism?

The goal of the privileges and immunities clause is to keep states from discriminating against which of the following?

An advantage of federalism is that it allows states to __________.

Which of the following is an example of a categorical grant?

What are the two types of federal powers derived from Article I,section 8 of the U.S.Constitution?

Which of the following best describes the death penalty in the United States?

Which of the following is a reason why the Framers created a federal system?

Which is an example of a federal mandate?

In the 1994 elections,the Republican Party advocated for a(n) __________ of national government authority to state governments.

The Constitution says that states are required to return a person charged with a crime in another state to that state for trial or imprisonment,a practice called __________.

Which of the following is an implied power of the federal government?

The Constitution is more specific about the __________ states do not have than about those they possess.

The Framers adopted a federal system of government partly because they feared __________.

In __________,powers are shared by the federal and state governments in a marble-cake fashion.

Although federalism is not unique to the United States,it is not a common method of governing.Only __________ of the 190 or so nations of the world have federal systems like that of the United States.