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AP GOV: Chapter 3 Vocab

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Federalism

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A way of organizing a nation so that two or more levels of government have formal authority over the same land and people. It is a system of shared power between units of government.

Unitary Governments

A way of organizing a nation so that all power resides in the central government. Most national governments today are unitary governments.

Intergovernmental Relations

The workings of the federal system -- the entire set of interactions among national, state, and local governments, including regulations, transfers of funds, and the sharing of information.

Supremacy Clause

The clause in Article VI of the Constitution that makes the Constitution, national laws, and treaties supreme over state laws as long as the national government is acting within its constitutional limits.

Tenth Amendment

The constitutional amendment stating, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people."