Zusammenfassung der Ressource
federalism
- powers
- coining money
- making treaties
- regulating interstate and international commerce
- maintaining a postal service.
- to override the states at times
- examples
- state government sometimes feels like the federal government is evading them
- prevents the creation of national policy
- constitution prohibits the exercise of certain powers or actions by both state and national govs.
- gun rights are federal issues
- trends
- they were federalizing crimes which were usually state problems
- sometimes they evade the rights of the states
- they always have problems with the education system and the changes made by the federal government
- sometimes they go against the constitution
- role of bill of rights
- any power that is not given to the federal government goes to the states
- states should have power, but not as much as the federal government
- sometimes they say they dont have to follow federal laws because of the tenth amendment
- Concepts
- there is a national government and other governmental units
- it is a separation of power
- dual Federalsim- described as a layer cake and eash layer has a different role
- the constitution sets up a federal system
- cooperative federalism- lets the power flow through the federal government (emerged during the new deal)