American Democracy Now, 2nd Edition (Harrison)Chapter 3:
FederalismChapter Outline
- An Overview of the U.S. Federal System
- Unitary System
- Confederal System
- Federal System
- Intergovernmental Relations (IGR)
- What a Federal System Means for Citizens
- Constitutional Distribution of Authority
- Concurrent Sovereign Authority
- National Sovereignty
- The Supremacy Clause
- National Treaties with Indian Nations
- State Sovereignty
- Powers Delegated to the States
- Powers Reserved to the States
- The Supreme Court's Interpretation of National versus State Sovereignty
- The Power to Regulate Commerce
- The Power to Provide for the General Welfare
- National Obligations to the States
- State-to-State Obligations: Horizontal Federalism
- The New Judicial Federalism
- Evolution of the Federal System
- Dual Federalism
- Cooperative Federalism
- Centralized Federalism
- Conflicted Federalism
- Landmarks in the Evolution of Federalism: Key Constitutional Amendments
- The Civil War and the Postwar Amendments
- The Sixteenth Amendment
- The Seventeenth Amendment
- Further Evolutionary Landmarks: Grants-in-Aid
- Categorical Grants
- Block Grants
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- State Attempts to Influence Grant-in-Aid Conditions
- Federalism's Continuing Evolution: Mandates
- Today's Federalism: Intergovernmental Relations
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