Federalism

 False The system of government that prevailed in the United States from the writing of the Constitution to approximately the Great Depression could be most accurately characterized as ________ federalism.

dual

The system of supportive relations among national, state, and local governments since the 1930s is often referred to as

  cooperative federalism. 

Which term describes federal subsidies for state and local governments on the condition that they be used for a specific purpose? Congress used this because it does not have the political and constitutional power to command state and local government to do its bidding.

  grants-in-aid 

The obligations imposed on state government by the national government without any funding at all have come to be known as?

unfunded mandates. 

We have studied how political scientists see federalism in the United States.  Which of the following statements is NOT about this interpretation of federalism?

  The U.S. Constitution is a good reference document in which we can vividly observe how people interpret federalism nowadays.