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1
Which of the following are critical to an understanding of federalism?
A)enumerated powers
B)reserved powers
C)concurrent powers
D)prohibited powers
E)All these answers are correct
2
Prohibited powers are
A)denied to either or both levels of government.
B)denied to the national government.
C)denied to state governments.
D)denied only occasionally to the national government.
E)denied only occasionally to the state governments.
3
Making laws is an _________ power of the Congress.
A)enumerated
B)allowed
C)often misused
D)inevitable
E)None of these answers is correct
4
Reserved powers are granted to
A)the states.
B)local governments.
C)Congress.
D)the federal courts.
E)the executive branch.
5
Antifederalists were concerned about
A)the people losing their rights under a strong national government.
B)states having too much power.
C)the inability of states to declare war.
D)both the inability of states to declare war, and the people losing their rights under a strong national government.
E)All these answers are correct.
6
Which Federalist pushed the Alien and Sedition Laws through Congress in 1798?
A)John More
B)Samuel Adams
C)John Adams
D)George Washington
E)Alexander Hamilton
7
Cooperative federalism became the dominant model for state-federal relations after what year?
A)1802
B)1862
C)1937
D)1902
E)1789
8
Federalism is
A)a dynamic system that at times has strengthened both the national and state governments.
B)a dynamic system that always favors the national government.
C)a static system that absolutely defines the powers of the national government and the state governments.
D)a chaotic system that is totally unpredictable.
E)None of these answers is correct.
9
The debate between Federalists and Antifederalists
A)lives on in the present.
B)continued until 1913.
C)has caused two wars.
D)was resolved when the Constitution was adopted.
E)is only a part of history and has no bearing on the country now.
10
The number of lobbying groups in the 1960s and 1970s
A)gradually and slowly increased.
B)was limited by the Congress.
C)was cut by a third.
D)dramatically increased.
E)leveled off.
11
Devolution of power to the states
A)has never occurred in the United States.
B)was required by the First Amendment.
C)accelerated in the 1990s.
D)resulted from the national government running out of money.
E)required states to pay for schools.
12
The Supreme Court based their decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education on the due process and equal protection clauses of the
A)Fifth Amendment.
B)Fourteenth Amendment.
C)Tenth Amendment.
D)Declaration of Independence.
E)Eleventh Amendment.





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