Chapters 3(the constitution)+4(federalism)
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| Those powers, expressed, implied, or inherent, granted to the National Government by the constitution | ||
| Powers that congress has that are specifically listed in the constitution, enumerated powers (collect taxes, coin money) | ||
| Powers not specifically mentioned in the constitution (highways, kidnapping=federal crime) | ||
| Powers the Constitution is presumed to have delegated to the National Government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community (accquire territory, requlate immigration) | ||
| Those powers that the constitution does not grant to the National Government and does not, at the same time, deny to the states (under 18=parental consent to marry, under 21=no liquor) | ||
| Those powers that can be exercised by the National Government alone (coin money, make treaties with foreign states) | ||
| Those powers that both the National Government and the States possess and exercise (set crimes and punishments for those crimes) | ||
| An act directing the people of the territory to frame a proposed state constitution | ||
| An act creating a new state | ||
| Grants or federal money or other resources to the states and/or their cities/countries and other local units | ||
| Distribution of part of the federal tax income to states and municipalities | ||
| Federal grants to states or local governments that are for specific programs or projects | ||
| System of governemnt in which a written constitution divides the powers of government between a central and regional government | ||
| Money given to states for general programs within a broad category | ||
| money for specific subject | ||
| agreement between states or with foreign states |