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| A system of shared sovereignty between two levels of government-one national and one subnational-occupying the same geographic region. |
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| Has a centralized governmental system in which local or subdivisional governments exercise only the powers given to them by the central government. |
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| a league of independent sovereign states, joined together by a central government that has only limited powers over them. |
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| a basic principle of federalism established by the U.S. constitution. In a federal system, powers are divided between units of government (such as federal and state governments. |
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| constitutional or statutory powers that are expressly provided for by the Constitution or by congressional laws. |
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| the federal government are implied by the expressed powers in the Constitution |
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| gives Congress the powers to make all laws "necessary and proper" for the federal government to carry out its responsibilities: it is also called the elastic clause and established in 1819 the case of McCulloch vs. Maryland. |
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| powers of the national government that are not always expressly granted by the Constitution but are necessary to ensure the nation's integrity and survival as a political unit. They include the power to make treaties, to wage war and make peace. |
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| enable a government to create laws for the protection of health, morals, safety, and welfare of the people. In the U.S. they are reserved for the states in the Constitution. |
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| held by both the federal and state governments. |
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| makes the constitution and all federal laws superior to all conflicting state and local laws. |
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| the Southern States withdrawing from the Union because of the future of Slavery provoked the Civil War (1861-1865) |
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| a system of government in which both the federal and the state governments maintain separate but sovereign powers. |
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| the theory that the states and the federal government should cooperate in solving problems. |
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| a program started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933 to bring the U.S. out of the Great Depression. It included many government spending and public-assistance programs, in addition to thousands of regulations governing economic activity. |
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| a model of federalism in which specific policies and programs are administered by all levels of government-national, state, and local. |
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| a doctrine rooted in the supremacy clause of the constitution that provides that national laws or regulations governing a certain area take precedence over conflicting state laws or regulations governing that same area. |
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| a plan to limit the Federal Govenment's role in regulating state governments and to give states increased power to decide how they should spend government revenues. |
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| teh surrender or transfer of powers to the local authorities by the central/national government. |
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| a requirenment in federal legislation that forces states and municipalities to comply with certain rules. If the federal government does not provide funds to the states to cover the costs of compliance, the mandate is referred to as an unfunded mandate. |
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| a federal grant targeted for a specific purpose as defined by federal law. |
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| federal grant given to a state for a broad area, such as criminal justice or mental-health problems. |
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| the power of the national government to influence state policies through grants. |
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| a model in which states and local governments compete for businesses and citizens, who in effect "vote with their feet" by moving to jurisdictions that offer competitive advantage. |
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