Federalism, Political Participants, and Voting

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.