Question 1

Why did local governments become administratively important in the early years of the Republic?

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A)   The Constitution instructed them to implement all federal laws.
B)   The Constitution instructed them to implement all state laws.
C)   States lacked the power to implement and enforce laws and relied, therefore, on local governments.
D)   The Supreme Court ruled that only local governments had the authority to implement laws under the Constitution.

Question 2

The Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)  was significant because it

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A)   allowed state governments to limit marriage to one man and one woman.
B)   struck down state laws that made sodomy a crime.
C)   required that all states offer marriage licenses to two people of the same sex.
D)   declared the full faith and credit clause unconstitutional.

Question 3

Which amendment preserves a strong role for the states in the American federal republic?

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A)   First
B)   Fifth
C)   Ninth
D)   Tenth

Question 4

To what does the "individual mandate" in the Affordable Care Act refer?

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A)   the requirement that state governments always protect an individual's "right to die"
B)   the requirement that state governments provide the same health care coverage to citizens and undocumented immigrants
C)   the requirement that state governments expand their Medicaid coverage or lose all of their existing Medicaid funds from the federal government
D)   the requirement that individuals purchase health care insurance coverage or pay a penalty to the federal government

Question 5

Who wrote the Supreme Court opinions in both McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)  and Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) ?

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A)   Alexander Hamilton
B)   James Madison
C)   John Marshall
D)   Roger Taney

Question 6

How did dual federalism help to establish a "commercial republic"?

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A)   The federal government passed laws forbidding any regulation of capitalism.
B)   The function of the federal government was to promote and assist commerce.
C)   The federal government was originally designed to regulate and control the marketplace.
D)   The federal government sold many natural resources from publicly owned lands.

Question 7

________ compels state governments to obey costly federal regulations but does not reimburse those costs.

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A)   A grant-in-aid
B)   An unfunded mandate
C)   A block grant
D)   General revenue sharing

Question 8

Which of the following Supreme Court cases limited federal power?

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A)   United States v. Lopez and Printz v. United States
B)   Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland
C)   Gibbons v. Ogden and Brown v. Board of Education
D)   McCulloch v. Maryland and Brown v. Board of Education

Question 9

The full faith and credit clause has been at the heart of controversies about marriage equality throughout American history. Explain the role of the full faith and credit clause in marriage debates by defining what the clause requires of states and whether the state and federal governments have always fulfilled this requirement. In particular, discuss the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and the Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015).

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Question 10

Which clause of the U.S. Constitution has been important in allowing the growth of national power?

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A)   the commerce clause
B)   the full faith and credit clause
C)   the comity clause
D)   the Tenth Amendment

Question 11

By 1932, ____ percent of the labor force in the United States was unemployed.

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A)   5
B)   10
C)   15
D)   25

Question 12

During the era of dual federalism, what was the primary goal of the federal government's domestic policies?

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A)   to promote competition between the states
B)   to promote the development of commercial activity between and among the states
C)   to protect citizens from the abuses of state governments
D)   to keep the states from going to war with each other

Question 13

Congressional grants paid for ________ percent of the development of an interstate highway system after World War II.

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A)   25
B)   50
C)   90
D)   100

Question 14

The specific powers granted to Congress in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution are called the ________ powers.

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A)   implied
B)   expressed
C)   sovereign
D)   executive

Question 15

Block grants are designed to

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A)   fund urban improvements on a specific city block.
B)   give the states considerable discretion in how money from the federal government should be spent.
C)   fund capital improvements in schools.
D)   impose strict limits on how state governments can spend money from the federal government.

Question 16

When was the era of dual federalism?

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A)   from the Founding until the end of the Civil War
B)   from the Founding until the New Deal
C)   from the Civil War until World War II
D)   from the New Deal until the 1960s

Question 17

What is the purpose of the Tenth Amendment?

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A)   to ensure that each state constitution offers the same number of individual rights provided by the federal Constitution
B)   to limit the powers of the federal government by reserving certain powers to the states and to the people
C)   to grant citizens of each state access to the federal court system
D)   to protect freedom of speech

Question 18

The fact that state governments are required to enforce restraining orders placed on stalkers and batterers in other states is a result of the

Accepted Answer

A)   Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.
B)   full faith and credit clause of the Constitution.
C)   supremacy clause of the Constitution.
D)   Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia.

Question 19

________ is the strategy of delegating authority to a lower level of government.

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A)   Home rule
B)   Redistribution
C)   Devolution
D)   Incorporation

Question 20

________ powers exist when both the state and national governments share authority in certain domains.

Accepted Answer

A)   Implied
B)   Reserved
C)   Expressed
D)   Concurrent

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Which amendment preserves a strong role for the states in the American federal republic?

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________ is the strategy of delegating authority to a lower level of government.

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To what does the "individual mandate" in the Affordable Care Act refer?

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________ compels state governments to obey costly federal regulations but does not reimburse those costs.

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