FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV WEEK 3 EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV WEEK 3 EXAM

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Question 1: Cooperative Federalism

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A system of government in which powers and policy assignments are shared between states and the national government.

Question 2: Due Process Clause (14th Amendment)

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provides that no state may deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

Question 3: Equal Protection Clause

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Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Question 4: Categorical Grants

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are federal grants given to state and local governments to encourage their cooperation in implementing specific purposes and programs. These grants give less flexibility to state governments than block grants.

Question 5: Fiscal Federalism

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the federal government sends monies to the states, and attaches stipulations, or rules and regulations, to the funds. This allows the federal government to exercise much more power over domestic affairs than it was given in the Constitution.

Question 6: Block Grants

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A grant from the federal government that a local/state government can allocate to a wide range of services.

Question 7: Revenue Sharing

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A government unit's apportioning of part of its tax income to other units of government.

Question 8: New Federalism

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a political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states.

Question 9: Selective Exclusiveness

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A doctrine asserting that only Congress may regulate when the commodity requires a national uniform rule.

Question 10: Dual Federalism

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A system of government in which both the states and the national government remain supreme within their own spheres, each responsible for some policies.

Question 11: Devolution

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The transfer of powers and responsibilities from the federal government to the states.

Question 12: Nullification

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The doctrine that a state can declare void a federal law that, in the states opinion, violates the constitution.

Question 13: Mandates

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is a requirement or an order from the central government that all state and local government must comply with.

Question 14: Compact Theory

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The idea that the U.S. was formed through an agreement between the state governments.

Question 15: Grants-in-Aid

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The national government gives back to the states (and local) governments a significant amount of tax dollars it collects. Federal grants have taken the form of____ which are grants to state and local governments designated for very specific programs or pr