Which of the following requires state governments to spend their own money to meet standards imposed on them by the federal government?
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unfunded mandates
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The supremacy clause, stipulated in Article VI of the Constitution, holds that:
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in a conflict between federal and state laws, the former will override the latter.
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During the Nullification Crisis in 1833, South Carolina tried to assert the right to veto (or
nullify)
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national legislation passed by Congress
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The legal doctrine at issue in the Plessy v. Ferguson case is the:
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separate but equal doctrine.
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The Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) ruled all of the following EXCEPT that:
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Texas had to rewrite its voter ID law.
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In the case of Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court decided that:
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the federal government's authority to regulate international and interstate commerce bestowed on it some power to regulate intrastate commerce.
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A federal program that gives a state government federal funds to address a specific need but gives the state wide latitude in deciding how the funds will be spent is known as a:
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block grant.
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Which of the following styles of federalism characterized the immediate pre-Civil War era?
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dual federalism
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) did what?
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validated the Texas state-imposed racial segregation in public schools.
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Both federal and state governments obtain sovereignty directly from
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the consent of the people.
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