One of the major goals of the new federalism was to:
A) administer specific policies and programs at all levels of government-national, state, and local.
B) increase cooperation between the federal and the state governments to solve various national issues.
C) return to the states certain powers that had been exercised by the national government since the 1930s.
D) enable businesses to move to jurisdictions that offered a competitive advantage.
E) grant state governments the power to counter national policies that did not serve their best interests.
Question -2-The individual American states are _____.
A) bicameral systems
B) confederal systems
C) unitary systems
D) monarchies
E) dictatorships
Question -3-Which of the following illustrates the concept of devolution?
A) The federal government of Nosterdim handing over the right to appoint governors to its state governments
B) The nation of Debster withdrawing from the economic union of which it has been a member for more than five decades
C) The government of Pokolistan stepping in and denying the right to vote for certain special case citizens in its state of Jumsta
D) The states of Kinlo and Vovlin signing a joint agreement to protect water resources shared jointly by them
E) The national government of Grentia getting dissolved as a result of a constitutional amendment
Question -4-Which of the following is a characteristic of a confederal system?
A) It is a system in which a subnational government is a creature of the national government.
B) It is joined together by a central government that has unlimited powers over it.
C) It is a system in which the Constitution vests all powers in the national government.
D) It has a system of shared sovereignty where the powers are divided between a central and regional government.
E) It has a national government that exists and operates only at the direction of subnational governments.
Question -5-The term _____ refers to the national, or central, government of the United States.
A) supranational government
B) caretaker government
C) federal government
D) subnational government
E) apex government
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