Matching Exercise Match the Concepts in the Left-Hand Column to Their Counterparts

Matching Exercise
Match the concepts in the left-hand column to their counterparts in the right-hand column.
-Block grant

A) A grant with a narrowly defined purpose used to achieve specific goals.
B) The 14 governmental powers that are given to the national government by the U.S. Constitution
C) The financial relations among different units of government.
D) A federal requirement that supersedes state laws in a particular program area.
E) The granting of considerable decision- making powers to local governments by state legislatures or state constitutions.
F) The part of proposed legislation that describes the fiscal impact of the legislation.
G) The principle that local governments have only those powers granted to them by the state government.
H) A grant that can be used for a number of purposes within a functional area that United States v. Lopez (1995) provides lower-level governments more discretion.
I) Established that Congress had the authority to establish a national bank even though this power was not enumerated in the Constitution.
J) The Court determined that Congress overstepped its bounds in attempting to apply the commerce clause to a criminal activity that had no connection to commerce.