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Question 1: Confederation

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Constitutional arrangement in which sovereign nations or states, by compact, create a central government but carefully limit its power and do not give it direct authority over individuals.

Question 2: "Our Federalism"

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Championed by Ronald Reagan, presumes that the power of the federal government is limited in favor of the broad powers reserved to the states.

Question 3: Creative Federalism

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During the Greate Society, the marble cake apporach of intergovernmental relations.

Question 4: Devolution Revolution

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The effort to slow the growth of the federal government by returning many functions to the states.

Question 5: Federalism

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Constitutional arrangement in which power is distributed between a central government and subdivisional governments, called states in the US. The national and the subdivisional governments both exercise direct authority over individuals.

Question 6: Full Faith and Credit Clause

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Clause in the Constitution requiring each state to recognize the civil judgments rendered by the courts of the other states and to accept their public records and acts as valid.

Question 7: Concurrent Powers

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Powers that the Constitution gives to both the national and state governments, such as the power to levy taxes.

Question 8: Cross-Cutting Requirements

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A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Federal grants may establish certain conditions that extend to all activities supported by federal funds, regardless of their source.

Question 9: Decentralists

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People who favor state or local action rather than national action.

Question 10: Centralists

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People who favor national action over action at the state and local levels.

Question 11: Cooperative Federalism

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Stresses federalism as a system of intergovernmental relations in delivering governmental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government.

Question 12: Crossover Sanctions

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A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. These sanctions permit the use of federal money in one program to influence state and local policy in another.

Question 13: Federal Mandate

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A requirement the federal government imposes as a condition for receiving federal funds.

Question 14: Fiscal Federalism

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Through different grant programs, slices up the marble cake into many pieces, making it even more difficult to differentiate the functions of the levels of government.

Question 15: National Supremacy

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Constitutional doctrine that whenever conflict occurs between the constitutionally authorized actions of the national government and those of a state or local government, the actions of the federal government will prevail.

Question 16: Marble Cake Federalism

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Conceives of federalism as a marble cake in which all levels of government are involved in a variety of issues and progrmas, rather than a layer of cake, or dual federalism, with fixed divisions between layers or levels of government.

Question 17: State's Rights

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Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the states.

Question 18: Inherent Powers

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The powers of the national government in foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow out of the very existence of the national government.

Question 19: Interstate Compact

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An agreement among two or more states. Congress must approve most such agreements.

Question 20: Project Grants

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Congress appropriates a certain sum, which is allocated to state and local units and sometimes to nongovernmental agencies, based on applications. Examples are grants by the National Science Foundation to universities and research institutes.

Question 21: Total Partial Preemption

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A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Total preemption rests on the national government's power under the supremacy and commerce clauses to preempt conflicting state and local activity.

Question 22: Implied Powers

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Powers inferred from the express powers that allow Congress to carry out its function.

Question 23: Linkage Institutions

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The means by which individuals can express preferences regarding the development of public policy.

Question 24: Categorical-Formula Grants

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Congress appropriates funds for a specific purpose, such as school lunches or for building airports and highways. These funds are allocated by formula and are subject to detailed federal conditions, often on a matching basis; provides federal supervision.

Question 25: Direct Orders

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A technique of Congress to establish federal regulations. Direct orders must be compiled under threat of criminal or civil sanction. Example: Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, barring job discrimination by state and local governments.