3: The Federal System

Which of the following is the system of government adopted under the Constitution?

Which of the following is a document used to establish a local government?

If you were living in a country with a unitary system of government, which government(s) would be strongest?

Which of the following was the first system of government of the United States?

Which form of government is best defined as a few people ruling in their own interest over constituents?

Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to “punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas.” What sort of power is the authority to punish pirates?

Why is it that the states establish criminal laws?

Which is an example of a concurrent power?

Which of the following is the clause of the Constitution that requires states to honor contracts from another state?

In the United States, which form of government is the most numerous?

Which case addressed the issue of whether the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment applied to actions of the states?

In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Marshall Court decided that the federal government could create a national bank based on the Constitution’s _______________ clause.

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

Which of the following is defined by separate and equally powerful state and national governments?

One of the effects of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments was _______________.

Which do state governments tend to prefer?

One of the goals of President Ronald Reagan’s New Federalism was to _____.

A federal grant that would give states money for a new housing project, but that would require the states to make at least 50 percent of the housing available to low- income families, would be considered a(n) _____.

Which political institution acts as the umpire of the federal system?

Which of the following best describes the Rehnquist Court’s decisions on federalism?

Which of the following is one of Congress’s implied powers?

Which of the following is an example of a power reserved to the national government?

Hypothetically, if Congress passed and the president signed a new law making the actions of Hillary Clinton, in regard to her home email server, illegal, such a law would be unconstitutional because _________

Which term describes the process that occurs when a state declares a federal law void?