In McCulloch v. Maryland, which clause of the U.S. Constitution did the Supreme Court interpret as ...

In McCulloch v. Maryland, which clause of the U.S. Constitution did the Supreme Court interpret as preventing Maryland from taxing the national bank?
 
  a. commerce
  b. supremacy
  c. due process
  d. equal protection

Question -2-

In Gibbons v. Ogden, the Supreme Court __________.
 
  a. broadly interpreted the national government's power to regulate interstate commerce
  b. broadly interpreted the president's power to wage war
  c. narrowly interpreted Congress's power to make law and collect taxes
  d. narrowly interpreted Congress's power to oversee the executive branch

Question -3-

The Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 attempts to prevent Congress from __________.
 
  a. creating expensive federal mandates and requiring the states to pay the cost
  b. increasing taxes to pay for unpopular programs
  c. using money from the Social Security Trust Fund for general revenue purposes
  d. fully funding state-level mandates

Question -4-

Which amendment gave Congress the power to levy and collect taxes on incomes without apportioning them among the states?
 
  a. Seventeenth
  b. Sixteenth
  c. Fourteenth
  d. Tenth

Question -5-

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Republican Party led the __________ revolution, which demanded that the national government return administrative authority to state governments.
 
  a. contract
  b. devolution
  c. evolution
  d. silent