"Marble Cake Federalism" Is

question 50

Multiple Choice

"Marble Cake Federalism" is

• A) a system in which the aims of subnational government are subordinated to the goals of the central government.
• B) a system in which state and federal authority is intertwined in an inseparable mixture.
• C) a system in which the authority of the state and federal governments is distinct and more easily delineated.
• D) a system that affords Congress nearly unlimited authority to exercise its powers through means that often coerce states into administering and/or enforcing federal policies.
• E) a system that holds that state authority acts as a significant limit on congressional power under the Constitution.

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