chapter 3 questions

Questions and Answers for Chapter 3.

1) Why Unify?
a) allows smaller political parties to pool their resourses to fight a common enemy.

2) What are enumerated powers?
a) Powers expressly granted to congress by the Constitution.

3)What is the Supremacy Clause?
a) Makes Federal law supreme over state laws.

4)What is the Full Faith and Credit Clause?
a) Requires states to accept court decisions made in other states, example, child custody case heard in one state while child and one parent may be in another state.

5)What was the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890?
a) An antimonopoly law.

6)When was the Civil Rights Act brought about?
a) 1964

7)What is Policy Diffusion?
a) Policy ideas from one state spread to other states.

8) what is situation in which states compete with one another to lower protections and services below the level they might otherwise prefer, called?
a) Race to the bottom.

9)What did the Voting Act of 1965 do?
a) Regulated voting rules that had largely been left to the states since the adoption of the Constitution.

10)What does HEW stand for?
a) Health, Education and Welfare.