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Constitutional Underpinnings
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Bicameral legislature - A legislature with two houses, such as the U.S. Congress with the Senate and the House of Representatives Block grant - Federal money granted to states for broad purposes, allowing states to have more flexibility in how they use the funds Categorical grant - Federal mone...

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Bicameral legislature - ✔✔✔A legislature with two houses, such as the U.S. Congress with the Senate
and the House of Representatives



Block grant - ✔✔✔Federal money granted to states for broad purposes, allowing states to have more
flexibility in how they use the funds



Categorical grant - ✔✔✔Federal money granted to states for specific and narrow purposes, with strict
guidelines on how the funds should be used



Centralists - ✔✔✔Those who favor greater national authority over state authority, believing in a strong
centralized government



Checks and balances - ✔✔✔A system where each branch of government can limit the power of the
other two branches, ensuring no branch becomes too powerful



Commerce clause - ✔✔✔Congressional power to regulate commerce among states, foreign nations,
and Indian tribes, ensuring a unified and fair economic system



Concurrent powers - ✔✔✔Powers held by both Congress and the states, allowing for shared
responsibilities in governing



Confederation - ✔✔✔A system where sovereign states are loosely tied to a central government, with
the states retaining most of the power



Decentralists - ✔✔✔Those who favor greater state authority over national authority, believing in a
decentralized government with more power given to individual states

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