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1. Powers expressly or implicitly reserved to the
states and emphasized by decentralists.
3. Constitutional arrangement in which power is
concentrated in a central government.
4. Case decided in 1824 where the Supreme Court
interpreted Article I, Section 8 giving Congress the
power to regulate interstate commerce, encompassing
virtually every form of commercial activity
6. States cannot limit rights without due process.
10. The authority to rule. Given to the government for
order and preservation.
11. Congress appropriates a certain amount of money
based on an application.
13. Powers inferred from the express powers that
allow Congress to carry out its functions.
15. Regulations, or in some cases conditions for
receiving grants, that impose costs on state or local
governments or private entities for which they are not
reimbursed by the federal government.
17. Legal process whereby an alleged criminal
offender is surrendered by the officials of one state to
officials of the state in which the crime is alleged to
have been commited
18. Clause in Article VI, Section 1 requires each state
to recognize the official documents and civil
judgments rendered by the courts of other states
24. The effort to slow the growth of the federal
government by returning many functions to the states.
25. System of government in which powers and policy
assignments are shared between states and national
governments.
26. The principle that the government must respect all
of the legal rights that are owed to a person according
to the law of the land.
27. Article VI of the Constitution, which makes the
Constitution, national laws, and treaties supreme over
state laws when the national government is acting
within its constitutional limits
28. Powers specifically granted to one of the branches
of the national government by the Constitution.

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2. The constitutional amendment stating, 'The powers
not delegated to the United States by the Constitution
nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the
states respectively, or to the people'
5. Requirements needed to cast a vote. Often seen as
obstructions to suffrage.
7. A clause in Article IV, Section 2, of the Constitution
according citizens of each state most of the privileges
of citizens of other states.
8. 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.
9. A way of organizing a nation so that two or more
levels of government have formal authority over the
same land and people. It is a system of shared power
between units of government.
12. An 1819 Supreme Court decision that established
the supremacy of the national government over state
governments.Chief Justice held that Congress had
implied powers
14. Congress appropriates funds for a specific
purpose.
16. It states that Congress, in addition to its express
powers, has the right to make all laws necessary and
proper for carrying out all powers vested by the
Constitution
19. The powers of the national government in the field
of foreign affairs that the Supreme Court has declared
do not depend on constitutional grants but rather grow
out of the very existence of fed. gov.
20. Pattern of spending, taxing, and providing grants in
the federal system
21. In Article I, Section 8, that gives the Congress
powers to pass laws 'necessary and proper' to carry
out enumerated powers.
22. Federal powers specifically addressed in the
Constitution. For Congress, the powers are listed in
Article I, Secton 8 including power to regulate and coin
money and impose taxes
23. System of government in which both states and
the national government remain supreme within their
own spheres