CH 3 FEDERALISM - Quiz

Generally speaking, state lawmakers prefer block grants to other forms of federal funding because they

come with fewer conditions than categorical grants have

Until the New Deal era of the 1930s, the Supreme Court regularly

struck down the federal government's attempts to regulate the economy

When Congress wants to address at the state level a policy issue that has national implications, its major tools are

money and authority

The Supreme Court has frequently used the Twelfth Amendment to strike down state laws

false

In which case did the Supreme Court expand federal power over interstate commerce by ruling that New York did not have the ability to create a steamship monopoly on the Hudson River?

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Unfunded mandates were likely quite popular among members of Congress during the two decades between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s because

they did not add to the national debt

The Articles of Confederation created a federal system for the early United States

false

The early chief justice who laid the groundwork for the eventual expansion of federal power was

John Marshall

An example of a country with a unitary system of power distribution is

the United Kingdom

Congress can influence what states do through all of the following actions except

reducing a state's representation in the Senate

Barbour and Wright conclude that major reasons for the current tensions between the state and federal governments include

conflicting audiences for policies and visions of the proper size of government

Barbour and Wright contend that American federalism

represents a compromise between advocates of a very weak and a very strong central government

According to Barbour and Wright, American governments at all levels have become more powerful over time because

Americans have continually expected the government to do more

Barbour and Wright imply that one result of the fact that the national government has grown so large in recent decades is the

debate between liberals and conservatives over the proper role of the national government in solving America's political problems

Block grants to the states are typically accompanied by detailed regulations concerning how that money should be spent

false

One of the lesser-publicized outcomes of the Civil War was that it

settled the question of whether the states retained full sovereignty under the Constitution

Barbour and Wright contend that although the Constitution does not permit individual citizens to have much control over their federal government, it does set the conditions to allow

more citizen participation at the state and local levels

The original draft of the Constitution gave average citizens a great deal of influence in the everyday workings of the federal government

false

The federal government has been able to get states to do what it wants through the use of categorical grants (most of the time) because states

have become financially dependent on federal aid

Since many of the costs of the federal No Child Left Behind Act were shifted onto the states, Barbour and Wright would assert that this law was a(n)

unfunded mandate

The cooperative federalism model of American intergovernmental power distribution implies that the

state and federal governments share responsibility for policy implementation

The ______ Amendment was often used by the Supreme Court in the 1950s and 1960s to invalidate state laws mandating racial segregation

fourteenth

Most scholars use the dual federalism model to describe modern American federalism

false

Congress has been reluctant to use block grants to achieve policy goals because

they might allow states to do what they want rather than what Congress wants

A possible example of federalism's impact on competition between American governments would be the

fight between St. Louis and Los Angeles over a particular professional football franchise