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2. Block grants is money that is given to the states by the federal government that can be used by the states but within the broad limitations provided by the federal government.

3. David B. Truman meant that political power is acquired by the peoples whose careers depend. That the national government has vast powers which it exercises through the state government.

4. Sovereignty means supreme or ultimate political authority. This is important to the United States because the sovereignty is shared by the national and state government which gives it the ability to decide whether the national or state governments should or is supreme.

5. The federal system is one in which sovereignty is shared, so that in some matters the national government is supreme and in other matters the state government is supreme. The power is distributed.

6. Federalism increases political activity because people feel that there is a reasonable chance of having a practical effect in their society.

7. States government draw its power from the people and the national government draw its power from the states.

8. The tenth amendment was a last minute thought up to kind of reassure the whole idea that the powers were reserved for the states, although this was already clear, it was kind of like a safety cushion for them to put it in writing and make it clear.

9. The founders knew that they couldn’t possibly list everything that the federal government would be allowed to in the near or far future, so they came up with this article entitling that if congress needed to put a law into effect that it had the power to do so.