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ConstitutionConstitution Federalism Federalism BranchesBranchesCongressCongress

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The two chambers that make up the bicameral legislation.

The Senate and the House of Representatives

- $200This Is a permanent committee

that continues its work from session to session in Congress

Standing Committee

- $300This Is the most powerful person from

the party in power.

Majority Leader

- $400Name of powers granted to

Congress by the Constitution.

Enumerated powers

- $500Temporary committees set up to

deal with specific subject matters.

Select committees

- $100The main goal of interest groups.

To influence policy.

- $200Committee that raises and spends

money on campaigns and candidates.

PAC

- $300Connects the people to the

government.

Linkage institutions

- $400These People work within the government in order to affect

policies.

Lobbyists

- $500 PACs that concentrate their

efforts on this issue

Single-issue groups

- $100Case where supreme court asserted the power

of judicial review in finding that the congressional statue expanding the Court's original jurisdiction was unconstitutional

Marbury vs Madison

- $200Maryland taxed banknotes produced by the Bank of the

United States and stated that the Bank was unconstitutional. With implied powers, Marshall refuted that the Bank was

constitutional and ruled that Maryland was forbidden from taxing the Bank.

McCulloch vs Maryland

- $300Court upheld a federal law which limited campaign contributions and said spending money to influence elections is a form of constitutionally protected free

speech, and struck down portions of the law.

Buckley vs Valeo

- $400State legislature to take race into account

when they drew electoral districts to increase the voting strength of minorities.

Shaw vs Reno

- $500Gun Free School Zones Act exceeded Congress'

authority to regulate interstate commerce. The law is a criminal statute that has nothing to do with "commerce" or any sort of economic activity.

U.S vs Lopez

- $100Weaknesses of the Articles of

confederation.

Weak national government, no president, weak enforcement of rules, no state unity, ect.

- $200What Resulted from the Great

Compromise?

A bicameral legislature: House of representatives and a Senate.

- $300Lets national government to stretch their

powers and take actions that aren’t listed in the US Constitution.

Necessary and proper clause

- $400National government can regulate

business that happens between states and with foreign nations.

Interstate Commerce Clause

- $500Used To persuade New York and other

Anti-Federalists to support and ratify the US Constitution.

Federalist papers

- $100The pattern of spending, taxing, and

providing grants in the federal system; it is the cornerstone of the national government's

relations with state and local governments.

Fiscal federalism

- $200Federal grants that can be used only for

specific purposes, or "categories," of state and local spending.

Categorical grants

- $300Federal categorical grants given for

specific purposes and awarded on the basis of the merits of applications.

Project grants

- $400Federal grants given more or less automatically to

states or communities to support broad programs in areas such as community development and social

services.

Block grants

- $500Powers of the federal government that go beyond enumerated in the Constitution. The Constitution states that Congress has the power to "make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution" the

powers enumerated in Article I.

Implied powers

- $100What Branch has Power to veto a

bill.

Executive

- $200What Branch directs The military

Executive

- $300What Branch can impeach the

president.

Legislative

- $400What Branch decides if law is

unconstitutional.

Judicial

- $500What Branch can Overturn

vetoes to pass bills.

Legislative