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Week 3 & 4 Assignment 1

Week 3 & 4 Assignment 1

Q Chapter Three -- McClain -- click, mcclain_4e_Chapter 03.pptxDownload mcclain_4e_Chapter 03.pptx What you should learn from the chapter subtitles, • Understand the nature of federalism and its various types. • Federalism and the Constitution: Constitution and National Government Power; Constitutional Amendments and National Power; Constitution and State Power The CPA is based on McClain chapter 3, Federalism and the Constitution: 1. What is federalism? Why is this an important concept in the American political system? 2. Define the commerce clause and the necessary and proper clause. What type of powers are these and what are they reserved for? 3. Identify two constitutional clauses that establish rules directing how states must relate to each other. What is the purpose of each of these clauses? 4. What powers does the Constitution deny to the states? 5. What is the supremacy clause? How does this relate to the issue of federalism in the United States? 6. What does the Tenth Amendment provide for? How does this fit into the concept of federalism in the United States? 7. After the Civil War, which three Constitutional amendments shifted the balance of power in favor of the national government in terms of civil rights policy? 8. How did the three Constitutional amendments increase the power of the national government? Name and identify the purposes of the amendments. Click, mcculloch v maryland to review questions to the video/transcripts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8FCeJRj-_YLinks to an external site. Transcript: http://assets.soomopublishing.com/courses/CIAG/McCulloch_v_Maryland_transcript.pdfLinks to an external site. 9. Explain the reasoning behind the U.S. Supreme Court’s finding that Congress does have the power to charter a bank. What key clause of the Constitution was this based on? 10. What did the Court’s interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Supremacy Clause mean for federal power in relation to that of the states? submission resource guide How to submit an assignment

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1. Federalism is the balance of power between the national government on one side and the state and the local governments on the other side. 2. The commerce clause gives the national government the authority to regulate commerce amongst the states, foreign states, and Indian tribes. Necessary and Proper clause gives the national government the authority to enact laws implied by the enumerated powers, as long as the laws are "necessary and proper" for carrying out one of the enumerated powers.