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- Civil law passed by the state legislature are called _________
- Franklin D. Roosevelt and others who favored federal action believed in the _____
- Article IV explains the relationship between the states and _________?
- Desegregation of public places in the South was changed in the 1960's by the case of _____
- These require government meetings to be open to the public.
- The Constitution grants these powers to the national government
- Article V spells out the way that the constitution can be __________?
- For a territory to be admitted to the Union, the first step was for Congress to pass
- Article II established the _______ Branch
- The use of federal money to finance state-run programs is called:
- There were four reasons that federal money seemed so attractive to state officials. Which of the following is NOT one of those reasons?
- Inaugurated in the 1920s, __________ proved to be a marvelous flexible tool of public finance:
- One clear outcome of the Civil War was that the _____ government would be supreme.
- Since the adoption of the constitution in 1787, the single most persistent source of political conflict has been:
- Until the 1960's most federal grants-in-aid were designed to essentially serve __________ purposes.
- In the United States, highways and some welfare programs are largely _____ functions.
- To ratify an amendment ____________________ of the state legislatures must approve it.
- In general, the states exercise predominant authority over the following services:
- _______________ was the first and most influential historian to argue that some of the Founding Fathers at the Constitutional Convention voted in ways that would protect their own economic interests.
- Members of the intergovernmental lobby are chiefly concerned with obtaining: