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TAMU POLS 207 EXAM 1 WITH QUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS
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TAMU POLS 207 EXAM 1 WITHQUESTIONS AND 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS 2024-2025
When did Texas become a state? - Answer: 1845.
When was the Texas Constitution ratified? - Answer 1876.
What is policy conservatism? - ANSWER To achieve social goals, a state tends to
limit welfare benefits, deregulate business, keep taxes low, and generally place less
dependence on government and more emphasis on individuals and the marketplace.
What is policy liberalism? - ANSWER A state's predisposition to expand welfare
programs, regulate businesses, implement progressive state income taxes, and
generally employ government to effect social change.
Where do state governments get their funding? - ANSWER Income, sales, and
other taxes, charges and fees, and federal transfers all contribute to state
government revenue. Taxes contributed for about half of the state's general revenue
in 2017.
Where do LOCAL governments get their revenue? - ANSWER Property, sales, and
other taxes, as well as charges and fees, and transfers from the federal and state
governments, all contribute to local government revenue. Taxes accounted for 42%
of LOCAL general revenue in 2017.
What is federalism? - ANSWER National and regional (state) governments share
authority; "independent equals"
What is the definition of a unitary government (Unitary System)? - ANSWER
System where legal authority is solely controlled by the central (national)
government
, What is a confederation? - ANSWER A consensual union of independent sovereign
states.
Why are states known as "laboratories of democracy?" - ANSWER They have
greater flexibility in implementing new policies than the national government.
(Policy innovation) States are miniature representations of the entire country.
What is nullification? - ANSWER The procedure by which a state rejects (nullifies)
a federal law, rendering it invalid within its borders.
What are the enumerated and delegated powers? - ANSWER The Constitution
expressly states that the national government has certain powers.
(One of the most significant of these is the national supremacy clause.)
What are the implied powers? - ANSWER The Constitution gives the federal
government broad but vague authorities.
(Example: the necessary and suitable clause)
What does the Tenth Amendment state? - ANSWER The powers not delegated to
the United States or prohibited by the Constitution to the States are reserved to the
States or the people.
(Known as "reserved powers")
What was the outcome of Marbury vs. Madison? (1803)? - ANSWER Established
the idea of judicial review in the United States, which means that American courts
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