A) The confederation had clearly failed in managing the country's problems.
B) The population was too dispersed for a unitary system to work.
C) Americans' loyalty to state governments was stronger than it was to the United States.
D) America had always had a federal system,and it would have been too radical and disruptive a change to adopt another system.
E) The country's transportation and communication systems were too primitive for a unitary government to work.
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A) Few countries have federal systems.
B) Most federal systems are democracies.
C) Authoritarian regimes generally do not use federalist systems.
D) No unitary governments are democratic.
E) Only some democracies use federal systems.
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A) health care
B) income security
C) education and training
D) transportation
E) defense
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A) pluralism.
B) bicameralism.
C) hyperpluralism.
D) intergovernmental relations.
E) international relations.
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A) It created obligations of the national government toward the state,including the obligation to protect states from invasion.
B) It established states as vital components of the machinery of government.
C) It guaranteed states equal representation in the Senate.
D) It guaranteed the continuation of each state by forbidding Congress to create new states by dividing existing states without the approval of the existing state.
E) All of these are true of the Constitution.
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A) specifically spelled out in the Constitution.
B) set out in the first ten amendments.
C) involving taxes,spending,and fiscal policy.
D) not specifically spelled out in the Constitution,but nonetheless acknowledged.
E) requiring ratification by the states.
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A) established Baltimore as the capital of Maryland.
B) stated that the Constitution gave Congress implied powers.
C) established the principle of judicial review.
D) established the supremacy of state governments.
E) recognized that Congress was limited to its enumerated powers.
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A) unitary
B) single
C) tripartite
D) cooperative
E) fiscal
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A) all governments by the Bill of Rights.
B) the national government.
C) the president.
D) state governments.
E) both the state and national governments.
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A) It was printing too much worthless paper money that debtors were using to pay off their debts.
B) It was charging exorbitant interest rates on its loans.
C) It was borrowing too much money,putting the United States government hopelessly in debt.
D) It was an instrument of the elite and gave the national government too much control of the economy.
E) It did not efficiently distribute money to the states.
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A) does not apply to state and local matters.
B) gives the states superiority over the national government's Constitution and laws.
C) made the Constitution,the laws of the national government,and the national government's treaties the supreme law of the land.
D) is vague about which level of government should prevail in a dispute involving federalism.
E) makes the president supreme in any constitutional conflicts with the other two branches.
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A) separation of powers.
B) full faith and credit.
C) national supremacy.
D) national licensure.
E) privileges and immunities.
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A) the weakness of the states compared to the federal government.
B) the tendency for the federal government to ignore state police powers.
C) the influence the national government can wield over state governments through the withholding of federal funds,despite state police powers.
D) the ability of the federal government to get around limitations on its power as set forth in the Tenth Amendment.
E) centralized public policy making.
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A) levy taxes.
B) regulate commerce with foreign nations.
C) take private property for public purposes.
D) make and enforce laws.
E) Only the national government is allowed to do all of these.
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A) the type of government found in the United States.
B) a government in which all power resides in a central government.
C) a government in which power is divided between a central government and regional governments.
D) a government in which power resides in regional or state governments.
E) the least common form of national government across the globe.
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A) A state taxing a national bank
B) Toll bridges on interstate roads
C) The location of Maryland's capital city
D) A state coining its own money
E) Import taxes on goods made in other states
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