State & Local Government Midterm

Municipal charters establish operating procedures for local governments.

Whose responsibility is education, transportation, public safety, taxation, physical environment, and civil rights?

Promoting equality is the most controversational purpose of government.

States have more power than the national government in a decentralized systems.

Who leads the government in a centralized system?

Over the last 230 years, how many amendments have been added to the constitution?

Three Ways Culture Affects Politics

Property taxes are for all real estate, commercial and private.

Each branch of government has the power to limit each other.

A grant from the federal gov to state that is given for general policy areas that leaves wide discretion.

Local governments operate under the state constitution.

Judicial review is

Constitutional Amendment guarantees a broad, but undefined, set of powers be reserved for the states and the people.

Which court case created the separate but equal doctrine?

Which type of state tends to have the most restrictive ballot access laws?

The Fourteenth Amendment is important because it prohibits states from denying individual rights.

Every state mandates:

Political systems in which power is concentrated in a central government.

The oldest objective, or the original purpose of government is:

The "general welfare clause" and the "necessary and proper clause" are examples of:

The U.S. constitution has 7400 words.

Government should be divided into separate powers

The national constitution is lengthy and detail specific.

He believed humans were brutish and needed to be ruled by government for peace and protection.

What are the 3 types of political culture?

A political system in which national and regional governments share powers and are considered independent equals.

Grants of authority explicitly given by the Constitution are called:

What article of the constitution gives the president power?

Characteristics of a population (size, race, age, etc.)

A political system in which power is concentrated in regional governments.

Excise Taxes (on tobacco, alcohol, etc. are also known as:

Taxes levied by the state and local government on purchases are:

Funds provided by the federal government to the state level and the state level to local.

What are the political culture opinions of civic participation?

The most common way to formally amend state constitutions is through:

Which political culture supports bureaucracy?

The right to tax, borrow, and spend are examples of:

A grant from the federal gov to state that is given for specific programs and little discretion.

The Bill of Rights, as originally approved and interpreted, protected individual liberties from violation by:

The Federal government cannot use the supremacy clause to override state law.

In the 3/5ths compromise, the Constitution says for representation 3/5ths of other persons will be counted

Sociodemographic’s and Economics affect political culture

What are the three purposes of government?

What is a fiscal year?

What article and section gives congress implied powers to pass laws considered necessary and proper

What was the first U.S. constitution?

A states ability to engage if different policy experiments without federal government interference.

Some state constitutions can have up to 400,000 words

Which states spend the least on higher education?

A grant from the federal gov to state that has few restrictions and little to none discretion

State’s don’t have a Bill of Rights.

John Locke’s View on State of Nature

What does republicanism mean?

A term used for the states that emphasizes their ability to engage in different policy experiments.

The process of the federal government overriding areas regulated by state law.

What did mobility, interstate commerce, the Great Depression, warfare states and urbanization do?

“Layered cake” - authorities are clearly outlined and the national and state government work separately but equally.

When one person has the same chance to succeed in life as another person this is called:

Parks and water sanitation is an example of

State government affects:

Dual Federalism is “marbled cake” - the government’s authority is mixed among the nation, state, and local levels.

How does political culture affect education?

What are the first 10 amendments to the U.S. constitution that set out our rights and limit the federal government?

The Executive Branch creates congress and grants them the power to make and limit laws.

the federal government should take the leading role in setting national policy, with state and local gov. helping to

What case determined that the national government has powers in addition to those expressly stated in the Constitution?

Which branches of government, in order, are the subjects of the first three articles of the Constitution?

Ballot initiatives let the voters directly convey state constitutional amendment instructions to legislation.

Who has the power to outline treason and its punishment?

Cash appropriations given by the federal government to the states.

Proposed by Connecticut, representation in the House of Reps is on population and the Senate is equal representation.