Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 83
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
51. Article IV, Section 1, the “full faith and credit” clause, applies
primarily to __________.
a. allowing recognition of foreign laws in the United States
b. laws between states
c. enforcing judicial settlements and court awards
d. sorting out jurisdiction in criminal proceedings between two
diferent states
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 86
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
52. Which is an example of a federal mandate?
a. Congress passes a law requiring all states to adopt a sex
ofender registry system categorizing ofenders based on
conviction, not future threat.
b. The Environmental Protection Agency sends money to
Louisiana to help with cleanup from the Gulf oil spill.
c. The Nevada legislature passes a law requiring all public
school teachers to spend 20 hours per week preparing students
for the state achievement test.
d. The Supreme Court upholds a federal law requiring all
citizens to wear a seatbelt while operating a motor vehicle.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 83
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Diiculty Level: Diicult
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53. Which best describes the decision in Printz v. United States?
a. State governments cannot require federal oicials to perform
state functions.
b. State oicials are prohibited from performing federal
functions.
c. The federal government cannot require state oicials to
enforce certain national laws.
d. The federal government cannot sue the state governments in
federal court.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 86
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
54. A proponent of devolution would most likely favor expanding the
authority of __________.
a. the military
b. state governments
c. the president
d. Congress
Topic: The National Courts and Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.3: Assess the role of the national
courts in deining the relationship between the national and
state governments, and evaluate the positions of decentralists
and centralists.
Page Reference: 91
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Diiculty Level: Diicult
55. The power to protect civil rights is best described as a(n)
__________ power.
a. concurrent
b. enumerated
c. implied
d. reserved
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Topic: Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 84
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
56. A disadvantage of federalism is that variations in which of the
following can create redundancies, ineiciencies, and
inequalities?
a. attitudes
b. resources
c. education
d. policies
Topic: Deining Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Interpret the deinitions of
federalism, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the
American system of federalism.
Page Reference: 79
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Diicult
True–False Questions
57. The United States has always had a federal system of
government.
Topic: Deining Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Interpret the deinitions of
federalism, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the
American system of federalism.
Page Reference: 76
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
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58. In a unitary system of government, the state and local
governments derive their powers from a centralized national
government.
Topic: Deining Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Interpret the deinitions of
federalism, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the
American system of federalism.
Page Reference: 76
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
59. All of the powers of the federal government are expressly
enumerated in the Constitution.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 81
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
60. The Supremacy Clause establishes that state laws will prevail
over conlicting federal laws.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 82
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
61. Dual federalism is an interpretation of federalism in which the
states and the national government have separate jurisdictions
and responsibilities.
Topic: Deining Federalism
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Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Interpret the deinitions of
federalism, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the
American system of federalism.
Page Reference: 73
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
62. Devolution was particularly strong during the 1990s.
Topic: The National Courts and Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.3: Assess the role of the national
courts in deining the relationship between the national and
state governments, and evaluate the positions of decentralists
and centralists.
Page Reference: 91
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
63. Within the federal system in the United States, cities are
considered sovereign entities.
Topic: Deining Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Interpret the deinitions of
federalism, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the
American system of federalism.
Page Reference: 75
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
64. Federalism encourages the states to create local solutions to
issues that are often debated at the national level.
Topic: Deining Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Interpret the deinitions of
federalism, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the
American system of federalism.
Page Reference: 78
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
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65. Proponents of states’ rights believe that the Constitution strictly
limited the national government and established broad
autonomy for the states.
Topic: The National Courts and Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.3: Assess the role of the national
courts in deining the relationship between the national and
state governments, and evaluate the positions of decentralists
and centralists.
Page Reference: 90 – 91
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
66. Any power not speciically delegated to the states by the
Constitution is reserved to the national government.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 83
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
67. States may not levy taxes on the same items that are taxed by
the national government.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 83
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
68. McCulloch v. Maryland provided crucial legal justiication for
the expansion of federal power.
Topic: The National Courts and Federalism
80
Learning Objective: LO 3.3: Assess the role of the national
courts in deining the relationship between the national and
state governments, and evaluate the positions of decentralists
and centralists.
Page Reference: 87
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
69. Thomas Jeferson would be considered a decentralist.
Topic: The National Courts and Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.3: Assess the role of the national
courts in deining the relationship between the national and
state governments, and evaluate the positions of decentralists
and centralists.
Page Reference: 90 – 91
Skill Level: Apply What You Know
Diiculty Level: Diicult
70. Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment, ratiied in 1868, gives
Congress the power to enact legislation to remedy constitutional
violations and the denial of due process or equal protection of
the laws.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 82
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
71. Federal mandates are direct judicial orders requiring state
governments to comply with the Constitution.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 83
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
81
72. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is based on preemption.
Topic: The National Courts and Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.3: Assess the role of the national
courts in deining the relationship between the national and
state governments, and evaluate the positions of decentralists
and centralists.
Page Reference: 88
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
73. The power to oversee primary and elementary education is
reserved for state
governments.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 84
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Moderate
74. The most important purpose of national grants is to solve
national problems while
minimizing growth in national agencies.
Topic: The National Budget as a Tool of Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.4: Analyze the budget as a tool of
federalism, and evaluate its impact on state and local
governments.
Page Reference: 91
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
75. State oicials generally prefer categorical grants over block
grants.
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Topic: The National Budget as a Tool of Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.4: Analyze the budget as a tool of
federalism, and evaluate its impact on state and local
governments.
Page Reference: 95
Skill Level: Analyze It
Diiculty Level: Diicult
Fill–in–the–Blank Questions
76. Under __________ federalism, the national government has tight
control of states through orders or mandates, often without
accompanying inancial resources.
Topic: Deining Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Interpret the deinitions of
federalism, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the
American system of federalism.
Page Reference: 76
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
77. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes stated that “The power to
wage war is the power to wage war __________.”
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 82
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
78. The __________ speciies that any power not speciically
delegated to the national government is reserved to the states
or the people.
Topic: The National Courts and Federalism
83
Learning Objective: LO 3.3: Assess the role of the national
courts in deining the relationship between the national and
state governments, and evaluate the positions of decentralists
and centralists.
Page Reference: 83
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
79. __________ powers are the functions and actions that Congress
could perform in order to exercise its enumerated powers.
Topic: The Constitutional Structure of American Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.2: Diferentiate the powers the
Constitution provides to national and state governments.
Page Reference: 81
Skill Level: Understand the Concepts
Diiculty Level: Easy
80. __________ federalism is deined as a lexible relationship
between the national and state government in which both work
together on a variety of issues and programs.
Topic: Deining Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.1: Interpret the deinitions of
federalism, and assess the advantages and disadvantages of the
American system of federalism.
Page Reference: 75
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
Diiculty Level: Easy
81. __________ occurs when a national law or regulation takes
precedence over a conlicting state or local law or regulation.
Topic: The National Courts and Federalism
Learning Objective: LO 3.3: Assess the role of the national
courts in deining the relationship between the national and
state governments, and evaluate the positions of decentralists
and centralists.
Page Reference: 88
Skill Level: Remember the Facts
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