Self Check: Reading Assignment

As you read Chapter 3 focus on the following:

1. Advantages of a federal system.
2. Describe how government powers are distributed in a federal system.
3. Define federalism. Distinguish between the distribution of powers in the federal system.
4. Distinguish between a unitary system and a federal system.
5. Identify the Constitutional obligations: of the national government to the states; of the states to each other; of the states to the national government.

After you have completed the self check, continue with this section. Remember that the page numbers do not match with your materials.