Question 1

The process by which one unit of government yields a portion of its tax income to another unit of government according to an established formula is called

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A)   general revenue sharing.
B)   preemption.
C)   means testing.
D)   indexing.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 2

During the era of dual federalism, the primary goal of the federal government's domestic policies was to

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A)   promote competition between the states.
B)   promote the development of commercial activity between and among the states.
C)   protect citizens from the abuses of state governments.
D)   keep the states from going to war with each other.E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 3

The best example of a concurrent power under the U.S. Constitution is the power to

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A)   declare war.
B)   coin money.
C)   regulate commercial activity.
D)   tax imports and exports.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

The Constitution stipulates which of the following about relationships between states?

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A)   No state may ever enter into a compact or agreement with another state.
B)   No state shall enter into a compact or agreement with another state without the approval of Congress.
C)   No state shall enter into a compact or agreement with another state without the approval of the Supreme Court.
D)   No State shall enter into a compact or agreement with another state without the approval of the governors of the remaining states.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 5

"Marble cake federalism" is associated with the

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A)   increasing political power of local governments over the last two decades.
B)   pattern of intergovernmental cooperation that has blurred the lines between the states and the national governments.
C)   practice of federal officials bribing their state counterparts with various gifts in order to convince them to follow national standards.
D)   confusion that emerged during the 1960s about which layer of government is actually responsible for regulating the national economy.E) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 6

________ is the strategy of delegating authority to a lower level of government.

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A)   Home rule
B)   Redistribution
C)   Devolution
D)   IncorporationE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 7

Advocates of limiting the powers of the national government justify their position by pointing to the ________ of the U.S. Constitution.

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A)   commerce clause
B)   necessary and proper clause
C)   Tenth Amendment
D)   due process clauseE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 8

The privileges and immunities clause of Article IV is also referred to as the ________ clause.

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A)   federalism
B)   vesting
C)   comity
D)   dual sovereigntyE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 9

A major reason that the slogan "states' rights" became tarnished in the 1950s and 1960s was that it had been used by

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A)   southern opponents of the civil rights movement to support Jim Crow laws.
B)   religious organizations to increase federal spending on faith-based initiatives.
C)   antiwar activists to protest the war in Vietnam.
D)   supporters of the civil rights movement to oppose racial segregation.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 10

Why do many political scientists and economists believe that states and localities should not be in charge of redistributive programs?

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A)   States and local governments have to compete with each other and therefore do not have an incentive to spend money on the needy people in their areas.
B)   Elected officials at the state and local levels are typically more discriminatory than elected officials at the national level.
C)   State and local governments are wasteful and are too often plagued by corruption and bribery.
D)   State and local governments have fewer powers under the Constitution to impose taxes and spend money than the federal government.E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 11

A federal grant to states to assist in the building of new public schools is an example of a ________ grant.

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A)   categorical
B)   formula
C)   block
D)   general revenueE) None of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 12

Which of the following has been an important contractual topic between states?

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A)   the distribution of river water
B)   state passport requirements
C)   highway regulations
D)   coining moneyE) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 13

The American system of federalism experienced important transformations during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Describe these changes by discussing New Federalism, devolution, and the Rehnquist Court's "federalism revolution." How did the developments of this period differ from the previous eras of American federalism?

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Question 14

Which of the following statements best describes the history of American federalism?

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A)   There has always been a clear allocation of responsibilities between the states and the federal government.
B)   Since the Founding, there has been considerable debate about the allocation of responsibilities between the states and the federal government.
C)   Debates over the responsibilities allocated to the states and to the federal government ended with the Civil War.
D)   Debates over the responsibilities allocated to the states and to the federal government ended immediately after the Great Depression.E) A) and B)
F) B) and D)

Question 15

By 1932, ________ percent of the labor force in the United States was unemployed.

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A)   5
B)   10
C)   15
D)   25E) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 16

Why did local governments become administratively important in the early years of the Republic?

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A)   The Constitution instructed them to implement all federal laws.
B)   The Constitution instructed them to implement all state laws.
C)   States lacked the power to implement and enforce laws and relied, therefore, on local governments.
D)   The Supreme Court ruled that only local governments had the authority to implement laws under the Constitution.E) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 17

The fact that state governments are required to enforce restraining orders placed on stalkers and batterers in other states is a result of the

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A)   Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
B)   full faith and credit clause of the Constitution.
C)   supremacy clause of the Constitution.
D)   Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 18

The purpose of the Tenth Amendment is to

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A)   ensure that each state constitution offers the same number of individual rights provided by the federal Constitution.
B)   limit the powers of the federal government by reserving certain powers to the states and to the people.
C)   grant citizens of each state access to the federal court system.
D)   protect freedom of speech.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 19

Which of the following statements is true about the Defense of Marriage Act?

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A)   The act stipulates that the federal government will not recognize same-sex marriage.
B)   The members of Congress who voted for it wanted to express their support for same-sex marriage.
C)   The act stipulates that the federal government will recognize same-sex marriage.
D)   The act stipulates that states have to recognize same-sex marriage from other states.E) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 20

The structure of American federalism

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A)   contributed to the longevity of the U.S. government by allowing many divisive policy decisions throughout American history to be made by states.
B)   has contributed to the longevity of the U.S. government by forcing every state to develop in exactly the same way.
C)   caused the Civil War to be fought decades before it would have been under a unitary system.
D)   has had almost no effect on the stability and functioning of the U.S. government.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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Advocates of limiting the powers of the national government justify their position by pointing to the ________ of the U.S. Constitution.

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During the era of dual federalism, the primary goal of the federal government's domestic policies was to

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Which of the following has been an important contractual topic between states?

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The privileges and immunities clause of Article IV is also referred to as the ________ clause.

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"Marble cake federalism" is associated with the

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________ is the strategy of delegating authority to a lower level of government.

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Why do many political scientists and economists believe that states and localities should not be in charge of redistributive programs?

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By 1932, ________ percent of the labor force in the United States was unemployed.

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