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The United States was the first country in the world to employ a __________ system of government.
federal
An overwhelming majority of the world's countries are governed by a ___________ system, a system of government in which constitutional authority rests with a national or central government.
unitary
What governmental system did Americans first adopt after gaining independence from the British, although it quickly proved unviable?
confederal system
Which of the following describes the delegation of power in a federal system of government?
Power is shared between the national government and the state governments.
__________ powers are those that the constitution gives to the national government.
delegated
___________ powers are those delegated powers that are assumed to exist in order for the government to perform the functions that are expressly delegated.
implied
Concurrent powers are those that belong to__________
both the national and state governments.
The legitimacy of reserved powers comes from the _____________
Tenth Amendment
___________ powers have evolved as powers found to be needed to perform the functions of the executive branch even though the Constitution does not specify these powers should be granted to the executive branch.
inherent
The constitutional provision that makes the Constitution and federal laws superior to all conflicting state and local laws is known as the ____________ clause.
supremacy
The __________ clause has been used by the U.S. Congress to criminalize the production and use of medicinal marijuana even in states where the growing and use of homegrown marijuana for medicinal purposes was legal.
commerce
The ______________ affects the balance of power in the federal system and dramatically improved the protection of civil rights and equality for all Americans.
Fourteenth Amendment
What was the outcome of the U.S. Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland?
The court decision upheld the right of the federal government to use the necessary and proper clause.
A model of federalism in which the federal government and the state governments are both sovereign within their sphere of influence is called __________
dual federalism
Cooperative federalism used the power of the national government to encourage the states to
pursue certain public policy goals to receive matching funds from the national government
Which of the following regarding the Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter is NOT true?
The court's ruling in this case strengthened the "separate-but-equal" doctrine.
What constitutional amendment was the basis for Governor Rick Perry's argument that the federal government has increasingly taken over more activities of the state governments?
The Tenth Amendment
Many Texans would argue that since the late 1970s, there has been a shift away from _____________ federalism to ___________ federalism.
cooperative; coercive
During the worst of the Great Recession, what percentage of Texas's state revenue came from the federal government?
more than 40 percent
Which of the following factors has contributed to Texas's growing reliance on federal funding?
the rise in the number of senior citizens living in the state
_____________ are obligations that the federal government imposes on state governments with little or no funds to help support the program.
unfunded mandates
When the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was enacted by Congress, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott joined 25 other states' attorneys general in opposing this law because
it required uninsured individuals to purchase health insurance and required states to expand Medicaid
Texas received national attention when it passed bill HB2, which imposed the strictest regulations in the nation on
the practice of abortion.
Which of the following is an important benefit of federalism?
It allows states to act as public policy laboratories and provide insight as to how well certain policies work.
Unlike neighboring Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma, ________ gambling is constitutionally prohibited in Texas.
casino
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