AP Govt Ch3 Federalism 2
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- Q1If the states lacked the power to tax, states would _________need to enter into treaties with foreign countries to obtain fundingpass the burden of funding their budgets to local governmentsbe in violation of the Constitution's provisions regarding interstate commercedepend on the federal government to be able to function30s
- Q2Federal preemptions allow Congress to impose national priorities on states through national legislation, a power that is rooted in the Constitution's _________necessary and proper clauseestablishment clauseelastic clausesupremacy clause30s
- Q3Which of these statements is correct regarding prohibited powers?A state government is only permitted to enter into a treaty with another country if it borders the country.State government are prohibited from establishing supreme courtsThe national government may not impose taxes on exportsAny power not specifically granted to the state governments i s prohibited30s
- Q4Since the beginning of the twentieth century, what has happened to the number of state laws preempted under Article VI?The number has remained constantThe number declined for the first 50 years and has since remained constant.The number has steadily declinedThe number has risen steadily30s
- Q5The full faith and credit clause ________protects the rights of citizens as they move from state to statespecifies that local governments exercise only those powers given to them by the central governmentprovides that, when state laws conflict with the US Constitution the Constitution prevailsstates that government authority will be divided between the national and regional governments30s
- Q6A vertical control could best by demonstrated when _________the Supreme Court declares an act of Congress unconstitutionalCongress overrides a presidential vetothe president vetoes an act of Congressstates refuse to implement a national program30s
- Q7Article IV of the Constitution requires states to give full faith and credit to _________treaties negotiated by the president of the United statesdeclarations of the UN Security Councilthe acts and judicial decisions of other stateslaws enacted by Congress30s
- Q8The principle of privileges and immunities was incorporated into the Constitution to ensure that _______a person charged with a crime in another state be returned to that state for trial or imprisonmentpublic official would receive equal treatment under the lawthe national government provide equivalent shares of grant money to statesstate governments would not discriminate against another state's citizens30s
- Q9The surrender of an accused or convicted criminal to the authorities of the state from which he or she fled is called _________deportationexonerationimmunityextradition30s
- Q10An example of an interstate compact is the _________creation of the nation's capital, Washington, DC, from land donated by Virginiacreation of the National Park serviceestablishment of the Port Authority of New York and New Jerseycreation of the electoral college30s
- Q11In the early years of the new republic most of the disputes over the boundaries of nation versus state power involved __________different interpretations of the inherent powers of the national governmentthe implied powers and the power to regulate commercethe role of the national government in mediating disputes between the statesthe enforcement of the Bill of Rights30s
- Q12Chief Justice ______ did much to increase the power of the national government and to reduce that of the states in the early part of the nineteenth centuryWarren BurgerJohn MarshallRoger TaneyWilliam Rehnquist30s
- Q13The Supreme Court, in the case of McCulloch v. Maryland, was asked to evaluate ________the tax burden placed on the national bank by the state of Marylandif the national bank was constitutional and if the sate of Maryland would tax the bankif the power to regulate interstate commerce was a concurrent powerif the national government's power to regulate commerce included intrastate commerce30s
- Q14The ruling in McCulloch V Maryland is significant because it ___________ruled that Maryland was within its rights to tax the bankestablished the doctrine of implied powersruled in a manner that greatly increased the power of the national governmentruled Congress could not use implied powers30s
- Q15In Gibbons v Ogden the Supreme Court __________ruled that Congress could not regulate activities that occur exclusively within the jurisdiction of a single staterendered a decision that severely limited the power of the national government and greatly expanded the power of statesruled that commerce should be interpreted to encompass all commercial business dealingsstated that the power to regulate interstate commerce is one that is shared between the federal and state governments30s