WAPLES, AMERICAN GOVERNMENT: STORIES OF A NATION FOR THE AP COURSE, 1E, CHAPTER 3 2023

1. federalism A system that divides power between the national and state government. 2. unitary system A system where the central government has all of the power over subnational governments. 3. confederal system 4. commerce clause 5. necessary and proper clause 6. supremacy clause 7. Tenth Amendment A system where the subnational governments have most of the power. Grants Congress the authority to regulate interstate business and commercial activity. Grants the federal government the authority to pass laws required to carry out its enumerated powers. Also called the elastic clause. Establishes the Constitution and the laws of the federal government passed under its authority as the highest laws of the land. Reserves powers not delegated to the national government to the states and the people; the basis of federalism. 8. reserved powers Powers not given to the national government, which are retained by the states and the people. 9. concurrent powers 10. full faith and credit clause Powers granted to both states and the federal government in the Constitution. Constitutional clause requiring states to recognize the public acts, records, and civil court proceedings from another state. 11. extradition The requirement that officials in one state return a defendant to another state where a crime was committed.