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d) federal mandate
e) tax refund

9. Ronald Reagan’s eff orts to increase states’ rights led to
   an increase in ___.
   a) block grants
   b) categorical grants
   c) general revenue sharing
   d) federal mandates
   e) state taxes


10. The imposition of national priorities on the states
    through congressional legislation and the imposi-
    tion of the national supremacy clause is called
    ___.
    a) cooperative federalism
    b) dual federalism
    c) competitive federalism
    d) federal preemption
    e) remedial legislation


11. A state would usually challenge the constitutionality of
    a federal law under which amendment(s)?
    a) Eighth Amendment
    b) Tenth and Eleventh Amendments
    c) Thirteenth Amendment

d) Fourteenth Amendment

e) First Amendment

12. The Eleventh Amendment’s protections of state sover-
    eign immunity guarantee that ___.
    a) residents of one state cannot sue the government
    of another state
    b) state governments cannot commit a legal wrong
    c) ambassadors from foreign countries cannot be
    detained by state governments
    d) state governments can sue the federal government
    e) state governments cannot be sued by anybody


13. The Court has recently overturned a number of con-
    gressional laws rooted in the ___.
    a) national supremacy clause
    b) reserve clause
    c) establishment clause
    d) commerce clause
    e) free exercise clause

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SUGGESTED READING

Beer, Samuel. To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American
Federalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Conlan, Timothy. From New Federalism to Devolution: Twenty-
Five Years of Intergovernmental Reform. Washington, DC:
Brookings Institution, 1998.
Derthick, Martha. Keeping the Compound Republic: Essays on
American Federalism. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution,
2001.
Elkins, Stanley, and Eric McKitrick. The Age of Federalism:
The Early American Republic, 1788–1800. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
Grodzins, Martin. The American System: A New View of
Government in the United States. Chicago: Rand McNally,
1966.
LaCroix, Alison L. The Ideological Origins of American
Federalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Manna, Paul. School’s In: Federalism and the National Education

Agenda. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006.

McDonald, Forrest. States’ Rights and the Union: Imperium in

Imperia, 1776–1876. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,

2000.

Nagel, Robert F. The Implosion of American Federalism.

New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Peterson, Paul E. The Price of Federalism. Washington, DC:

Brookings Institution, 1995.

Posner, Paul L. The Politics of Unfunded Mandates: Whither

Federalism? Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press,

1998.

Scheberle, Denise. Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust

and the Politics of Implementation, 2nd ed. Washington, DC:

Georgetown University Press, 2004.