POLS 207 UPDATED COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What has been used to expand national power over the states? - ✔✔It increased
with industrialization, expansion of individual rights, and social services
✔✔How has federalism evolved over time? - ✔✔
✔✔Supremacy clause - ✔✔Article VI of the Constitution states the following are
supreme:
The U.S. Constitution
Laws of Congress
Treaties
✔✔Implied powers - ✔✔Powers inferred from the expressed powers that allow congress
to carry out its functions
✔✔Elastic clause/ proper clause - ✔✔a statement in the U.S. Constitution (Article I,
Section 8) granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for
carrying out the enumerated list of powers
✔✔Full/faith/credit clause - ✔✔addresses the duties that states within the United States
have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
, ✔✔Privileges and immunity clause - ✔✔prevents a state from treating citizens of other
states in a discriminatory manner
✔✔When was the current constitution ratified? - ✔✔1876
✔✔When did Texas become a state? - ✔✔1845
✔✔What stopped Texas from becoming a state in 1836? - ✔✔The Texas war of
independence ended on April 21, 1836, but Mexico refused to recognize the
independence of the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two
states continued into the 1840s. The United States recognized the Republic of Texas in
March 1837 but declined to annex the territory
✔✔What type of political culture does Texas have? - ✔✔Texas has a mix of
individualistic and traditionalistic (want to limit government
✔✔What's the annexation agreement that allowed Texas to become a state and the
year it did? - ✔✔
✔✔Governor shift under B Davis - ✔✔Needed due to Governor Davis corruption and
power imbalance allowed in 1869 Constitution
✔✔From where does any government derive its power? - ✔✔to govern from the people
that it governs
✔✔Marbury vs Madison (1803) - ✔✔1. expanded the authority of the federal courts
2. established judicial review
3. serves as mediator between state and national disputes.
✔✔Mcollough vs Maryland (1819) - ✔✔1. expanded implied powers of the national
government
2. says through a very broad interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause that
Congress can create agencies, programs, and national laws in order to successfully
carry out it's enumerated powers.
✔✔From where do local governments derive their power? - ✔✔The state constitutions,
the people, and charters
✔✔What services do cities provide? - ✔✔may include sanitation (both sewer and
refuse), water, streets, the public library, schools, food inspection, fire department,
police, ambulance, and other health department issues and transportation
✔✔What services do special districts provide? - ✔✔
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔What has been used to expand national power over the states? - ✔✔It increased
with industrialization, expansion of individual rights, and social services
✔✔How has federalism evolved over time? - ✔✔
✔✔Supremacy clause - ✔✔Article VI of the Constitution states the following are
supreme:
The U.S. Constitution
Laws of Congress
Treaties
✔✔Implied powers - ✔✔Powers inferred from the expressed powers that allow congress
to carry out its functions
✔✔Elastic clause/ proper clause - ✔✔a statement in the U.S. Constitution (Article I,
Section 8) granting Congress the power to pass all laws necessary and proper for
carrying out the enumerated list of powers
✔✔Full/faith/credit clause - ✔✔addresses the duties that states within the United States
have to respect the "public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state
, ✔✔Privileges and immunity clause - ✔✔prevents a state from treating citizens of other
states in a discriminatory manner
✔✔When was the current constitution ratified? - ✔✔1876
✔✔When did Texas become a state? - ✔✔1845
✔✔What stopped Texas from becoming a state in 1836? - ✔✔The Texas war of
independence ended on April 21, 1836, but Mexico refused to recognize the
independence of the Republic of Texas, and intermittent conflicts between the two
states continued into the 1840s. The United States recognized the Republic of Texas in
March 1837 but declined to annex the territory
✔✔What type of political culture does Texas have? - ✔✔Texas has a mix of
individualistic and traditionalistic (want to limit government
✔✔What's the annexation agreement that allowed Texas to become a state and the
year it did? - ✔✔
✔✔Governor shift under B Davis - ✔✔Needed due to Governor Davis corruption and
power imbalance allowed in 1869 Constitution
✔✔From where does any government derive its power? - ✔✔to govern from the people
that it governs
✔✔Marbury vs Madison (1803) - ✔✔1. expanded the authority of the federal courts
2. established judicial review
3. serves as mediator between state and national disputes.
✔✔Mcollough vs Maryland (1819) - ✔✔1. expanded implied powers of the national
government
2. says through a very broad interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause that
Congress can create agencies, programs, and national laws in order to successfully
carry out it's enumerated powers.
✔✔From where do local governments derive their power? - ✔✔The state constitutions,
the people, and charters
✔✔What services do cities provide? - ✔✔may include sanitation (both sewer and
refuse), water, streets, the public library, schools, food inspection, fire department,
police, ambulance, and other health department issues and transportation
✔✔What services do special districts provide? - ✔✔
