Question 1

Sovereignty refers to

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A)  a government headed by a king.
B)  a division of authority between the national government and the states.
C)  supreme and final governing authority.
D)  sub-national (state) governments.
E)  None of these answers is correct.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 2

Explain what is meant by fiscal federalism and describe how it has strengthened the authority of the federal government.

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Fiscal federalism refers to the expendit...

Question 3

Federal grants-in-aid used only for a designated activity are called

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A)  categorical grants.
B)  block grants.
C)  revenue-sharing grants.
D)  targeted grants.
E)  streamlined grants.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 4

Which of the following is a concurrent power held by both the national government and state governments?

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A)  chartering local governments
B)  issuing currency
C)  taxation
D)  foreign affairs
E)  national defenseF) B) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 5

Beginning with the Articles of Confederation and continuing through the modern period,explain how the commerce power of the national government has related to the issue of national authority.

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Under the Articles,the national governme...

Question 6

________ advocated a "new federalism."

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A)  President Ronald Reagan
B)  President George W.Bush
C)  President John Kennedy
D)  President Lyndon Johnson
E)  President Jimmy CarterF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 7

What did Reagan promote as part of his version of "new federalism"?

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A)  an increase in federal funding of state education initiatives
B)  a reduction of the Supreme Court's role in determining the line between federal and state finance
C)  the use of block grants over categorical grants
D)  increased policy collaboration between states and the federal government
E)  a reduction in federal enumerated powersF) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

Which of the following was an argument in favor of federalism at the time of the writing of the Constitution?

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A)  Federalism will protect liberty.
B)  Federalism will force officials to be more responsive to the people.
C)  Federalism will provide for a stronger national government than existed under the Articles of Confederation.
D)  Federalism will be less likely to produce an all-dominant faction.
E)  All of these answers are correct.F) B) and C)
G) C) and D)

Question 9

According to the Anti-Federalists,too strong of a national government meant

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A)  eventual encroachment upon the sovereignty of the states.
B)  that a new constitutional convention would have to convene every few years.
C)  that a monarchy was preferable to a republic.
D)  that effective commerce between and among the states was an impossibility.
E)  that slavery would be abolished immediately.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 10

The writers of the Constitution established a federal system of government in part because

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A)  the states already existed as established entities and had to be preserved.
B)  few states in history had successfully established unitary governments.
C)  Locke and Montesquieu had concluded it was superior to other systems of government.
D)  the British political system was based on the federal principle.
E)  the states would be valuable sources of revenue for a federal government.F) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 11

In key decisions early in the New Deal era,the Supreme Court

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A)  invalidated key pieces of FDR's New Deal legislation.
B)  upheld FDR's "court-packing" proposal.
C)  ruled that segregation violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
D)  ruled that public accommodations were part of interstate commerce.
E)  invalidated the commerce clause.F) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT an enumerated power?

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A)  public education
B)  regulation of commerce
C)  declaration of war
D)  taxation
E)  All of these answers are correct.F) All of the above
G) None of the above

Question 13

Fiscal federalism refers to the

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A)  coordinated fiscal policy decisions of the federal government and the states.
B)  expenditure of federal funds on programs run in part through state and local governments.
C)  national banking system first established by Alexander Hamilton in the 1790s.
D)  fact that both the federal government and the states have the power to tax.
E)  ability of the states to manipulate federal decision making.F) B) and C)
G) All of the above

Question 14

Roughly one in every ________ dollars spent by local and state governments in recent decades was raised not by them but by the government in Washington.

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A)  two
B)  five
C)  ten
D)  fifty
E)  one hundredF) B) and E)
G) C) and E)

Question 15

In America today,public education is primarily the responsibility of

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A)  the national government.
B)  state and local governments.
C)  the National Education Association (NE
A)  .
D)  the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) .
E)  the U.S.Department of Education.F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 16

In 1787,most countries in the world had a(n) __________ form of government.

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A)  confederal
B)  federal
C)  unitary
D)  democratic
E)  theocraticF) A) and B)
G) B) and E)

Question 17

What did Newt Gingrich declare about federalism in 1994?

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A)  that government had moved too far away from the federalism of the early twentieth century
B)  that power was beginning to swing back to the federal government
C)  that the 1960s-style federalism was dead
D)  that federalism was the only system that could preserve the power of the states
E)  that the federal government had betrayed the promise of states' rights in the ConstitutionF) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 18

Which decision is indicative of how the Supreme Court interpreted the Fourteenth Amendment and state discretion in civil rights matters in the decades after the Civil War?

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A)  Brown v.Board of Education
B)  the Dred Scott decision
C)  Plessy v.Ferguson
D)  McCulloch v.Maryland
E)  Gibbons v.OgdenF) B) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 19

Viewed in historical terms,federalism has been a

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A)  contentious and dynamic system that has adapted to the needs of the time.
B)  theoretical principle,in that constitutional provisions for federalism have had virtually no impact on the relationship between the nation and the states.
C)  flawed principle,in that the relationship between the nation and the states has been a constant source of problems without many positive benefits.
D)  fixed principle,in that the relationship between the nation and states is almost completely defined by provisions of the Constitution.
E)  poor replacement for the confederal system which existed before the Constitution.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 20

Devolution is the

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A)  passing of authority from the national government to the state and local levels.
B)  expansion of national authority that began in the 1930s.
C)  contraction of state authority and the expansion of local government authority.
D)  expansion of national authority that began in the 1960s.
E)  None of these answers is correct.F) D) and E)
G) None of the above

Exam 3: Federalism: Forging a Nation

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Fiscal federalism refers to the

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