1. Chapter 3: Federalism
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2. Federalism
• An Overview of the U.S. Federal System
– Unitary System
– Confederal System
– Federal System
• Intergovernmental Relations
• What a Federal System Means for Citizens
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5. Federalism
• Constitutional Distribution of Authority
– Concurrent Sovereign Authority
– National Sovereignty
• Supremacy Clause
• National Treaties with Indian Nations
– State Sovereignty
• Powers Delegated to the States
• Powers Reserved to the States
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8. Federalism
• Constitutional Distribution of Authority (continued)
– The Supreme Court’s Interpretation of
Enumerated, Implied, and Reserved Powers
• 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
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10. Federalism
• Evolution of the Federal System
– Dual Federalism
– Cooperative Federalism
– Centralized Federalism
– Conflicted Federalism
– Landmarks in the Evolution of Federalism
• The Civil War and the Postwar Amendments
• The Sixteenth Amendment
• The Seventeenth Amendment
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11. Federalism
• Evolution of the Federal System (continued)
– Further Evolutionary Landmarks
• Categorical Grants
• Block Grants
• State Attempts to Influence Grant-in-Aid
Conditions
– Federalism’s Continuing Evolution: Mandates
• Preemption
• Partial Preemption
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12. Federalism
• Today’s Federalism: The Good, the Bad,
and the Inevitable
– Public policy experimentation
– Redundant and overlapping protection of civil
rights and civil liberties
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