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| 87417033 | federalism | way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government have formal authority over the same land and people | |
| 87417034 | unitary government | way of organizing a nation so that all power resides in the central government | |
| 87417035 | intergovernmental relations | the workings of the federal government; the entire set of interactions among national, state, and local governments | |
| 87417036 | supremacy clause | makes the Constitution, national laws, and treaties supreme over state laws when the national government is acting within its constitutional limits | |
| 87417037 | Tenth Amendment | states that "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people" | |
| 87417038 | McCulloch v. Maryland | established the supremacy of the national government over state governments | |
| 87417039 | enumerated powers | powers of the federal government that are specifically addressed in the Constitution | |
| 87417040 | implied powers | powers of the federal government that go beyond those enumerated in the Constitution | |
| 87417041 | elastic clause | authorizes Congress to pass all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out the enumerated powers | |
| 87417042 | Gibbons v. Ogden | gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, encompassing virtually every form of commercial activity | |
| 87417043 | full faith and credit | requires each state to recognize the official documents and civil judgments rendered by the courts of other states | |
| 87417044 | extradition | legal process whereby an alleged criminal offender is surrendered by the officials of one state to officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to have been committed | |
| 87417045 | privileges and immunities | citizens of each state will be afforded most of the privileges of citizens of other states | |
| 87417046 | dual federalism | system of government in which both the states and the national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies | |
| 87417047 | cooperative federalism | system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states and the national government | |
| 87417048 | devolution | transferring responsibility for policies from the federal government to state and local governments | |
| 87417049 | fiscal federalism | the pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in the federal system | |
| 87417050 | categorical grants | federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes of state and local spending | |
| 87417051 | project grants | federal grant given for specific purposes and awarded on the basis of the merits of applications | |
| 87417052 | formula grants | federal grant distributed according to a formula specified in legislation or in administrative regulations | |
| 133435866 | block grants | federal grants given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs |
