Chapter 2

A  by limiting the sphere of government

B  by having fewer distinct groups in society

C  by having a diversity of views

D  by decreasing political participation

A  Federal and state governments must share power.

B  Policy development is universalistic.

C  It creates an inability to experiment with different policy solutions.

D  It results in highly inefficient policies.

A  It maintains local forms of representative government.

B  It hinders policy development and leads to budgetary inefficiency.

C  It promotes the division of labor within government.

D  It discourages separatism and secession.

A  It depends on state compliance.

B  It hinders policy development.

C  It limits oversight and accountability.

D  It provides more opportunities for political participation.

A  It was unconstitutional.

B  He received pressure from state and local governments.

C  He became a states’ rights advocate.

D  He received pressure from Congress.

A  the Federalists

B  the anti-Federalists

C  the Republican Party

D  the suffragists

A  He believed that the federal government should play a significant role in the regulation of industry and transportation.

B  He believed that a federal system should limit the scope of government in order to protect civil liberties.

C  He endorsed unfunded mandates.

D  He believed that state power should be secondary to that of the federal government.

A  They create the potential for more government oversight and new regulations.

B  They lead to the creation of fewer government agencies.

C  They tend to create stricter boundaries between states, counties, and towns.

D  They engender national disengagement from environmental protection efforts.

A  The FCC used its power to regulate interstate commerce, as granted under the Commerce Clause, to effectively end the policy of net neutrality.

B  The FCC sued states that allowed internet service providers to discriminate across websites and web services.

C  The Trump administration enforced a ruling that prohibited internet service providers from discriminating across websites and web services.

D  Before the FCC ruling, state legislatures had passed their own legislation forbidding internet service providers from discriminating across web services.

A  the Department of Transportation

B  the Federal Aviation Administration

C  the Federal Communications Commission

D  the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

A  dual federalism

B  coercive federalism

C  state sovereignty

D  unconstitutionality

A  State and local governments must have depleted all their own resources to provide emergency services themselves.

B  The national government must deem emergency relief politically necessary.

C  State and local governments must request and approve emergency relief from the national government.

D  Public opinion must demand that leaders in Washington intervene.

A  increased state power relative to the federal government

B  fewer government agencies

C  a shrinking of the executive branch

D  shifts in the balance of power toward the federal government

A  Herbert Hoover

B  Theodore Roosevelt

C  Franklin Roosevelt

D  Harry Truman

A  The philosophical debate between the states and national government over equal rights was sorted out.

B  The national government assumed more power over significant governmental decisions and public policy after the Civil War.

C  The states assumed greater responsibility over laws pertaining to civil liberties after the Civil War.

D  The philosophical debate between the states and the national government over economic freedom was resolved.

A  It is characterized by a struggle to balance power between the federal and state governments.

B  The backlash from the states in response to growing national power has been greatly reduced.

C  It is characterized by a power struggle that has overwhelmingly favored the states.

D  The debate over the balance of power between the federal and state governments has largely been resolved.

A  a commingling of national and state responsibilities

B  a steady increase in the power of state governments

C  a steady increase in the power of the federal government

D  distinct policy jurisdictions between the federal and state governments

A  Opponents of the law felt that the United States needed a nationwide single-payer healthcare system.

B  Opponents of the law felt that the reforms wouldn’t fix any of the problems with the healthcare system in the United States.

C  Opponents of the law felt that there was nothing wrong with the healthcare system in the United States.

D  Opponents of the law felt that the federal government had overstepped its authority.

A  It mandated that all citizens have medical insurance.

B  It excluded children under 26 from their parents’ health insurance plans.

C  It limited Medicaid coverage.

D  It allowed insurance companies to discriminate against individuals with preexisting conditions.

A  dual federalism

B  devolution

C  grants-in-aid

D  unfunded mandates

A  decreasing the federal deficit

B  returning power to the states

C  increasing the size of the federal government

D  maximizing the amount of unfunded mandates

A  cooperative federalism

B  dual federalism

C  an unfunded mandate

D  a block grant

A  by threatening to remove funding from programs

B  through federal grants-in-aid

C  by limiting the reach of the Commerce Clause

D  through social programs aimed at increasing civil rights

A  national defense

B  voting rights

C  social

D  budgetary

A  It lessened the power of the central government in relation to the power of the states.

B  It ushered in an era during which the powers of the federal government were protected by the Supreme Court.

C  It resulted in a deepening of the Great Depression.

D  It successfully installed extra judges on the Supreme Court.

A  constitutional authority

B  dual federalism

C  the Commerce Clause

D  states’ rights

A  a matter of national defense in the buildup to World War II

B  economic and financial

C  civil rights

D  expansion of executive power

A  hiring bureaucrats to take over state and local governments

B  the use of grants-in-aid

C  creating federally funded public schools

D  creating new state and local programs

A  the Necessary and Proper Clause

B  the Full Faith and Credit Clause

C  the Commerce Clause

D  the Supremacy Clause

A  relatively high in comparison to the states

B  working together with the states

C  pertaining mainly to commerce, defense, and international trade

D  unlimited by the Supreme Court

A  coercive

B  dual

C  marble cake

D  cooperative

A  grants-in-aid

B  international trade

C  Net neutrality

D  Commerce Clause

A  Seattle municipal laws regulating transportation

B  Washington state laws regulating controlled substances

C  U.S. laws regulating controlled substances

D  international drug-trafficking laws

A  The waterways are regulated by the Washington State Police.

B  The waterways are patrolled by anti-drug vigilantes.

C  The waterways are notorious areas of piracy and lawlessness.

D  The waterways are regulated by federal agencies.

A  state regulations that prohibit marijuana in the workplace

B  health recommendations issued by the American Medical Association

C  local laws that make marijuana illegal

D  federal laws that make marijuana illegal

A  judicial review Incorrect

B  federalism

C  executive authority

D  civil rights

A  Taxes on all government-owned banks are unconstitutional.

B  Maryland’s tax was not found to be unconstitutional.

C  State governments do not have power over the national government.

D  The tax would have bankrupted the national government.

A  High taxes are unconstitutional because they violate private-property rights.

B  Taxes tend to hurt the poor more than they hurt businesses or the wealthy.

C  A sufficiently high tax could ensure that no institution could survive.

D  A federal income tax is an unconstitutional exercise of congressional power.

A  Can a bank be owned by members of Congress?

B  Can the federal government tax nonprofit organizations?

C  Can a state tax a federal institution?

D  Can a federal institution tax a state government?

A  The Necessary and Proper Clause, in combination with the enumerated power of Congress to regulate commerce and coin money, gives Congress the implied power to charter a national bank.

B  The Supremacy Clause, in combination with the enumerated power of Congress to borrow money on the credit of the United States, gives Congress the implied power to establish banks in order to pay off war debts.

C  The power to charter a bank is an enumerated power of Congress.

D  The power to charter a bank is an implied power of the president.

A  Chartering a bank was not among Congress’s implied powers.

B  Chartering a bank was not among Congress’s enumerated powers.

C  Chartering banks was exclusively the province of state governments, according to the Constitution.

D  Chartering banks would lead to government corruption by allowing members of Congress undue influence over financial markets.

A  in favor of McCulloch

B  in favor of Philadelphia

C  in favor of state banks

D  in favor of Maryland

A  Anti-Federalists in the Maryland legislature wanted to test the limits of national power.

B  The United States started borrowing almost exclusively from the national bank instead of state banks.

C  Maryland had a standing law that all banks would be taxed equally.

D  The federal government had previously taxed state banks excessively.

A  One of Congress’s enumerated powers under the Constitution is the authority to charter national banks.

B  State government officials requested that the federal government charter a national bank to lend states money.

C  State-owned banks were charging the federal government too much interest on loans to pay debts from the War of 1812.

D  State-owned banks had declared bankruptcy as a result of debt accumulated during the War of 1812.

A  a state court ruling that conflicts with the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage

B  an amendment to a state constitution that establishes the right to religious freedom at the state level

C  the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which allowed the federal government to monitor state-run elections

D  a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation that overrules a state court judgment involving food-safety labels

A  It allows Congress to establish banks or other financial institutions as long as they are deemed “necessary and proper” for maintaining the stability of the nation’s economy.

B  It enhances the power of the states by allowing them to do whatever is “necessary and proper” to prevent Congress from overstepping its constitutional authority.

C  It expands Congress’s power by allowing Congress to pass any laws that are “necessary and proper” for it to carry out its enumerated powers under the Constitution.

D  It limits Congress’s power by allowing Congress to pass only those laws that are “necessary and proper” for it to uphold and defend the principles in the Constitution.

A  There has been no change in federalism since the mid-20th century.

B  Some power has shifted back to the states.

C  The states are now more powerful than the federal government.

D  The federal government dominates the states more than ever before.

A  the executive branch

B  the Senate

C  the House of Representatives

D  the Supreme Court

A  Local governments have assumed sole responsibility for domestic issues.

B  State governments share virtually none of the same powers as the federal government.

C  The federal government has progressively assumed greater responsibility for domestic and economic issues.

D  The debate surrounding the balance of power has almost completely disappeared.

A  Southern states opposed the federal government while Northern states supported it.

B  States felt that the federal government had far too much power over their affairs.

C  States wanted to abolish the federal government completely.

D  States enjoyed their sovereignty from the federal government.

A  the division of power between the three branches of government

B  the division of power between civilian and military leadership

C  the division of power between the federal and state governments

D  a policy designed to enhance the power of the federal government

A  the abuse of political power

B  the rising Confederacy

C  the growth of state power

D  the executive branch

A  The Framers generally followed the model of federalism outlined in the Articles of Confederation.

B  Ensuring federalism was one of the easier tasks undertaken by the Framers of the Constitution.

C  Federalism primarily entails the growth of the federal government.

D  Federalism was a subject of intense debate during the drafting of the Constitution.

A  In a federal system, neither the states nor the national government has the power to address public health issues.

B  In a federal system, power shifts to the states to resolve their own public health problems.

C  In a federal system, both states and the national government have powers that can affect the issues brought on by a public health crisis.

D  In a federal system, the national government is the only government entity with the power to address matters of public health.