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- True or False: States can give more protection than federal, but can never give less - federal is the floor
- The number of seats each state has in the House is based on a state's population, which changes over time.
- The news is often framed in themes that simplify the issues and provide continuity from story to story.
- Either by three-fourths of state legislature or by special state conventions in three-fourths of the states
- because it was clear that many areas in the South had no intention of living up to the spirit of the fifteenth Amendment
- bureaucratic agencies, interest groups, and congressional committees and subcommittees
- to persuade party members to support the party's priorities
- Laws requiring states to take on an activity or meet certain national conditions.
- Federal ______ are taxes collected by the federal government across the 50 states and redistributed to states and localities if they are willing to meet certain conditions.
- State and local governments conduct and pay for _______ of all national government officials.
- Acts limiting a state's ability to regulate an area.
- Through ________, the national government enacts laws that allow the national government to assume responsibility for state government function.
- If a territory wishes to become a state, Congress must pass a ________, allowing the people of a territory to prepare a _______.
- The national government must guarantee each state a _______ form of government and protection from invasion and domestic violence.
- The president has the authority to send _________ to a state where there is civil unrest or to aid disaster victims.
- In the landmark case of _________ v. _________, the Supreme Court ruled that when the national government and a state government come into conflict, the national government is _________.
- States play a key role in the process of amending the _______.
- The Court's view shifted between giving more power to the national government and giving more power to ________ governments.
- Which branch of the government specifically can purpose and amendment to the Constitution?
- Although the Virginia and New Jersey plans differed, they both called for