Question 1

There are about municipalities in the United States today.

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A)   37,000
B)   19,000
C)   16,000
D)   13,000
E)   3,000F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 2

In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) , Chief Justice John Marshall declared that no state could use its taxing power to tax an arm of the national government. In doing so, he was defining the meaning of

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A)   the full faith and credit clause.
B)   concurrent powers.
C)   the elastic clause.
D)   the supremacy clause.
E)   implied powers.F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 3

There are about counties in the United States today.

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A)   90,000
B)   37,000
C)   16,000
D)   13,000
E)   3,000F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

Question 4

The Defense of Marriage Act (1996)

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A)   allowed state governments to ignore same-sex marriages performed in other states and barred the national government from recognizing same-sex marriages.
B)   stated the America has a powerful interest in allowing same-sex couples to enjoy the institution of marriage.
C)   states that the national government cannot determine who is or is not married.
D)   employed a novel legal theory to allow states to opt out of expanding medical coverage to same-sex couples.
E)   states that the national government is required to accept state-authorized same-sex marriages.F) A) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 5

The powers of a state to enact whatever laws are necessary to protect the health, morals, safety, and welfare of its people are called powers.

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A)   enumerated
B)   inherent
C)   implied
D)   police
E)   expressedF) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 6

At issue in was how the commerce clause should be defined and whether the national government had exclusive power to regulate commerce in more than one states.

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A)   Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) 
B)   McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) 
C)   Marbury v. Madison (1803) 
D)   United States v. Lopez (1995) 
E)   Printz v. United States (1997) F) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 7

There are governments in the United States today.

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A)   almost 90,000
B)   about 20,500
C)   1500
D)   nearly 100
E)   51F) B) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 8

Of all the governments in the United States today, about 40 percent are

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A)   counties.
B)   townships.
C)   municipalities.
D)   special districts.
E)   school districts.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 9

Currently, about of state and local revenue comes from the federal government.

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A)   50 percent
B)   25 percent
C)   20 percent
D)   75 percent
E)   33 1/3 percentF) All of the above
G) A) and C)

Question 10

The word "federalism" appears in the U.S. Constitution.

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A)   nowhere
B)   in Article I
C)   in Article IV
D)   in the Ninth Amendment
E)   in the Tenth AmendmentF) B) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 11

All of the following are concurrent powers EXCEPT the power to

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A)   levy and collect taxes.
B)   charter banks and corporations.
C)   borrow money.
D)   establish local government.
E)   to make and enforce laws.F) None of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 12

Powers held by both the federal and state governments in a federal system are called powers.

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A)   enumerated
B)   inherent
C)   implied
D)   concurrent
E)   expressedF) A) and B)
G) A) and E)

Question 13

The federal government has asserted its right to regulate the minimum age for drinking alcoholic beverages by

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A)   threatening to take federal highway construction funds away from states that do not comply.
B)   arguing it has the right to establish a minimum drinking age under the reserved powers clause.
C)   stating that doing so is a power reserved to the national government under the Tenth Amendment.
D)   citing the past history of government regulating alcohol during Prohibition in the 1920s.
E)   arguing that the United States needs to align itself with the policies of other advanced industrialized nations.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 14

In a confederal system,

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A)   local or subdivisional governments exercise only those powers given to them by the central government.
B)   any subnational government is a "creature" of the national government.
C)   sovereign states are joined together by a central government that has only limited powers over them.
D)   there is no central government.
E)   government powers are divided between a central government and regional governments in a system of shared sovereignty.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 15

The relationships among the states in our federal system of government are sometimes referred to as federalism.

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A)   picket-fence
B)   cooperative
C)   dual
D)   new
E)   horizontalF) A) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 16

The Defense of Marriage Act provided a challenge to the Constitution's clause.

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A)   elastic
B)   supremacy
C)   equal protection
D)   full faith and credit
E)   necessary and properF) All of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 17

The most extreme example of the conflict between national supremacy and state sovereignty was/is

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A)   the Civil War.
B)   the Revolutionary War.
C)   state segregation laws.
D)   the gay marriage debate.
E)   the regulation of interstate commerce.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 18

Segregationist policies in the southern states can be attributed to

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A)   the expansion of national power at the expense of the states.
B)   the simultaneous regulation of business by all levels of government.
C)   the lack of uniformity of state and federal laws.
D)   the convergence of national and state policies on a single issue.
E)   federalism's encouragement of local self rule, allowing the dominance of a single group.F) C) and D)
G) B) and D)

Question 19

The government's acquisition of is an example the inherent powers of government, and was needed to gain the support of states such as Maryland during ratification of the Constitution.

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A)   Louisiana
B)   the Northwest Territory
C)   slaves
D)   police powers
E)   government owned corporationsF) D) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 20

The cornerstones of United States government domestic regulatory powers through the commerce clause are

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A)   the states' rights arguments advanced during the Civil War era.
B)   the Supreme Court decisions Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland.
C)   the power judicial review asserted by the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison.
D)   a 1942 Supreme Court case upholding federal regulations on wheat production.
E)   the programs to combat poverty launched as part of president Johnson's Great Society initiative.F) B) and D)
G) A) and D)

Exam 3: Federalism

There are governments in the United States today.

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Powers held by both the federal and state governments in a federal system are called powers.

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The word "federalism" appears in the U.S. Constitution.

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There are about municipalities in the United States today.

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In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) , Chief Justice John Marshall declared that no state could use its taxing power to tax an arm of the national government. In doing so, he was defining the meaning of

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In a confederal system,

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All of the following are concurrent powers EXCEPT the power to

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The federal government has asserted its right to regulate the minimum age for drinking alcoholic beverages by

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Of all the governments in the United States today, about 40 percent are

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Currently, about of state and local revenue comes from the federal government.

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The relationships among the states in our federal system of government are sometimes referred to as federalism.

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There are about counties in the United States today.

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The cornerstones of United States government domestic regulatory powers through the commerce clause are

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The Defense of Marriage Act provided a challenge to the Constitution's clause.

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The Defense of Marriage Act (1996)

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At issue in was how the commerce clause should be defined and whether the national government had exclusive power to regulate commerce in more than one states.

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The most extreme example of the conflict between national supremacy and state sovereignty was/is

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The powers of a state to enact whatever laws are necessary to protect the health, morals, safety, and welfare of its people are called powers.

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Segregationist policies in the southern states can be attributed to

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The government's acquisition of is an example the inherent powers of government, and was needed to gain the support of states such as Maryland during ratification of the Constitution.

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