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1. POL 140-07
Fall 2015

3. INSTRUCTIONS
With your copies of the U.S. Constitution,
complete the worksheet as a group.
The names of ALL group members need to be listed
on your work to earn class participation credit.

5. Congress:
Legislate
President:
Execute
Judiciary:
Interpret

8.  No power to draft
soldiers or pay for military
 No power to regulate
commerce
 No power to tax

11.  Strengthened power of
national government

19.  ProtectsAgainstTyranny
 Dispersion and Diffusion of Power
 Increases Participation
 Improves Efficiency
 Ensures Policy Responsiveness / Innovation
 Reduces Conflict

20.  Creates Confusion & Reduces Accountability
 Increases Conflict
 “NIMBY,” Impact on National Unity
 Creates Inequality
 Money, Economic Inequality, Law and Justice

22.  Grants specific powers
to national government
 Limits on powers
granted to federal
government and states
 Lays out relationships
among states and
between states and
federal government

24. What is the supremacy clause?

26.  Article I, Section 8
 Examples:
 Coin money
 Regulate interstate and
foreign commerce
 Tax imports and exports
 Make treaties
 Declare war

28.  Known as “elastic clause”
 Grants Congress power to pass laws “which
shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the Foregoing powers”

30.  Tenth Amendment
 What is the “police power?”
 Guarantee Clause (Article IV, Section 4)
 “The United States shall guarantee to every state in
this union a republican form of government…”
 Federalist 39 (Madison)

32.  Taxing
 Borrowing and
Spending Money
 Establishing Court
Systems
 Regulating Elections

35.  “Writ of Habeas Corpus”
 Latin for “have you the body”

36.  States cannot enter treaties or alliances
 14th and 15th Amendments to Constitution
 Fourteenth: Due Pr0cess, Equal Protection Clauses
 Fifteenth:Voting Rights

38. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN
NATION AND STATES
 Supremacy Clause
 ArticleVI, Clause 2
 “This Constitution, and the
Laws of the United States…
shall be the supreme law
of the land…”
RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN STATES
 Full Faith and Credit Clause
 Privileges & Immunities Clause
 “The Congress shall have power to
make all laws which shall be
necessary and proper to secure to the
citizens of each state all privileges
and immunities of citizens in the
several states...”

40. (1789-1933)

41.  “Layer-Cake”
 National and state
governments have
separate influence

43. ROGERTANEY DRED SCOTT

44. (1933-1964)

45.  “Marble-Cake”
 National and state
government work
together for Americans

46. The shift from dual to cooperative federalism occurred
due to federal govt. expanding its rule over time.

47. (1964-1980)

48.  National government is
responsible for policy
 What is the role of state
and local governments?
“Picket-Fence” Federalism

49. Signing the Civil Rights Act
Categorical grants helped fund
LBJ’s “War on Poverty”

51. (1980-2002)

52.  Increase in devolution to subnational units
 Began during Nixon
 General Revenue Sharing
 Money spent however states wanted
 Reagan and Block Grants
 Money for broad purposes
 Local areas decide how to spend money
 Reduced size and power of federal govt.

53. Federalism in the White House

54. (2002-Present)

55.  Choosing national or subnational supremacy
President
Barack Obama
Governor
Mark Sanford