Which statement describes the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
What is the difference between enumerated and implied powers?
What is the supremacy clause of the US Constitution?
Read the scenario.The United States is unhappy with its balance of trade with Canada. The federal government wants to discourage people in the United States from buying goods imported from Canada. Congress passes a tariff, or tax, on certain goods made in Canada. Canada responds by buying less grain from the United States. The governors of states that depend on agriculture complain to the federal government about lost money.
Which part of the US Constitution explains what powers are reserved for the states or the people?
How was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a check on the power of the states?
The creation of the Internal Revenue Service is an example of what type of power?
What is the name for a power that is shared by the federal government and state governments?
Read the passage by Alexander Hamilton, a supporter of the US Constitution. [T]he concurrence of thirteen distinct sovereign wills is requisite, under the Confederation, to the complete execution of every important measure that proceeds from the Union. It has happened as was to have been foreseen. The measures of the Union have not been executed; the delinquencies of the States have, step by step, matured themselves to an extreme, which has, at length, arrested all the wheels of the national government, and brought them to an awful stand. —Alexander Hamilton, Independent Journal
What is the purpose of the Necessary and Proper Clause?
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