The one exception of where the Constitution grants an expressed power to the States is the _________.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 gives Congress the ________________ power.

The Supreme Court decided that legislative apportionment was a question for state and federal courts to consider.

Upheld that voters, whether rural or urban, are protected by the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause.

The justices didn’t want to enter the “political thicket.”

One person – One vote

Drawing of district boundaries in a manner that benefits a particular political party.

Legal process by which a fugitive from justice in one state is returned to the state from which he escaped.

Agreements among states and with foreign states.

No state can draw unreasonable distinction between its own residents and those of other states.

Constitutional requirement that each state accept the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.

In Federalist #39, Madison didn’t call it federal or national. He called the hybrid arrangement a “_______________________.”

The national government has ______________ powers listed in the body of the Constitution.

The principle of enumerated powers also implies that if the Constitution does not grant a power to the national government that it is ______________________________.

Roosevelt’s __________________ brought about the most decisive transformation of American Federalism.

______________ became and remain the primary way the national government controls the states.

What are unfunded mandates?

All of the following are ways ordinary people shape public policy except

What are the first two political parties?

What is the single most significant predictor of voting in the United States?

What is the sole purpose of the organization of interest groups?

How can interest groups get money to candidates in federal elections?

What is the primary objective of voter registration?

What were the Framers of the Constitution fearful of when it came to electing a president?

What is a term that means one has “the right to vote.”

What do Maine and Nebraska do different than the others when it comes to casting electoral votes?

How many electoral votes are needed to be elected President?

What happens if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes?

No candidate gains a majority of the votes in a primary election, so narrows it down and votes again.

When voters abandon their party for one election then come back to their party the next election.

31. Allows citizens to register to vote when they renew their driver’s licenses or visit local, state, or national govt offices for other purposes.

If voters shift more permanently away from their old party to the new one for several elections.