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| program that gives money to children and families; form of welfare |
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| federal grants given more or less automatically to states or communities to support broad programs in areas such as community development and social services |
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| federal grants that can be used only for specific purposes, or "categories," of state and local spending. They come with strings attatched, such as nondiscrimination provisions |
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| requirements by the federal government to receive grants |
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| Confederation or Confederal System |
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| weak national government, and most or all power is in the hands of the country's components |
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| transferring responsibility for policies from the federal government to state and local governments |
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| a system of government in which bothe the states and the national government remain supreme within their own spheres each responsible for some policies |
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| leading political scientist and specialist in the study of federalism |
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| Federalism/Federal System |
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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 |
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