Changing Views of Federalism

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Changing Views of Federalism

• AP Government

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Federalist Paper No. 9

• This form of government is a convention by which
  several smaller states agree to become members of
  a larger one, which they intend to form. It is a
  kind of assemblage of societies that constitutes
  a new one, capable of increasing by means of new
  associations, until they arrive to such a degree
  of power as to be able to provide for the
  security of the United body.

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Federalist Paper No. 14

• in the first place it is to be remembered that
  the general government is not to be charged with
  the whole power of making and administering
  lawsThe subordinate governments, which can
  extend their care to all those other objects
  which can be separately provided for, will retain
  their due authority and activity.

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Dual Federalism

• Dual Federalism Belief that having separate and
  equally powerful levels of government is the best
  arrangement. In other words, Congress does not
  exceed its enumerated powers.
• Layer Cake Federalism
• Does the era of John Marshall fit in with the
  concept of Dual Federalism?

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The Demise of Dual Federalism

• Nation experiences a severe slump in agricultural
  prices
• Construction industry went into decline
• Inventories of consumer goods and automobiles
  were in all-time high.
• Bank failures common
• 1929 stock market crash killed the economy

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Cooperative Federalism

• Marble Cake Federalism
• Creative Federalism
• Competitive Federalism
• Fiscal Federalism
• Our Federalism New Federalism
• The New Deal was the clearest shift of power
  we have ever seen.

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The Devolution Revolution

• Reagan Revolution
• Block Grants
• Bill Clinton wins 1992 election - Republicans win
  both houses of Congress and many Governorships.
• Unfunded mandates Reform Act
• Republicans campaign on the Contract with
  America created by Newt Gingrich.
• Many Proposals to return power back to the
  states.
• EX- Welfare Reform

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Welfare Reform
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Questions

• What is the role of the federal government in
  administering welfare today?
• Why might the welfare system have had its
  beginnings in the mid-1930s?
• What is the major difference between welfare
  before and after 1996?
• Does the welfare reform law give more power to
  the state or take power from them?

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Classroom Discussion

• Ronald Reagan labeled his proposals relative to
  state and local government as the New Federalism.
  He pictured millions of Americans as resentful
  of the idea that a bureaucratic elite in
  Washington knows best what is best for people
  everywhere and that you cannot trust local
  governments. Local government is the government
  closest to the people it is most responsive to
  the individual person it is peoples government
  in a far more intimate way than the government
  Washington can ever be.
• In what sense can it be argued that government at
  the local level is closer to and more responsive
  to the people? Which people?
• What does your text suggest regarding the
  relative knowledge of citizens about the
  personnel and issues at the national and local
  levels?
• Why dont all local and state governments tax
  their people heavily enough to operate their own
  governments?