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| 10643958385 | Block Grants | A grant for general purposes instead of a specific purpose. Ex: Healthcare | 0 | |
| 10684337041 | Categorical Grants | Grant given out by congress for a Specific Purpose with specific rules. | 1 | |
| 10684593278 | Checks and Balances | A system that allows each branch of government to limit the powers of the other branches in order to prevent abuse of power. | 2 | |
| 10684596140 | Commerce Clause | The clause in the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations. | 3 | |
| 10684601091 | Concurrent Powers | Powers shared by the national and state governments. | 4 | |
| 10684603434 | Constitutional Convention | Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States. | 5 | |
| 10684612714 | Necessary and Proper Clause | The "implied powers" clause located in Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 of the Constitution. It states that aside from the enumerated powers given to the federal government, it also has the power to pass any law that can be traced back to those powers "delegated" in the Constitution. | 6 | |
| 10684616232 | Electoral College | A group of people named by each state legislature to select the president and vice president. | 7 | |
| 10684727888 | Elite Democracy | A political system in which the privileged classes acquire the power to decide by a competition for the people's votes and have substantial freedom between elections to rule as they see fit. | 8 | |
| 10684754932 | Enumerated/Expressed Powers | The seventeen powers granted to the national government under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. These powers include taxation and the regulation of commerce as well as the authority to provide for the national defense. | 9 | |
| 10732921045 | Faction | A small, organized, dissenting group within a larger one, especially in politics. | 10 | |
| 10732936208 | Federalism | A system in which power is divided between the national and state governments. | 11 | |
| 10732941204 | Great (Connecticut) Compromise | Compromise that satisfied both large states and smaller states. Senate: 2 per state House: By population | 12 | |
| 10732954730 | Importation Compromise | Waited until 1808 to debate about taxing the slave trade. | 13 |
