FEDERALISM

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FEDERALISM

• The Power of Government in the United States of
  America

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FEDERALISM

• Government Types
• UNITARY
• CONFEDERATE
• FEDERAL

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FEDERALISM

• UNITARY
• Unitary government is one which delegates powers
  from a central national government comprised of a
  legislative and executive bodies, to local
  administrative units.
• Most of the governments in the world today are
  unitary
• The relationship between each of the 50 States of
  the U.S. and local government is unitary.

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FEDERALISM

• Confederation
• A confederate system is one in which an alliance
  of relatively independent regional units
  delegates authority to a limited central
  administrative national government.
• The member states have supreme authority over all
  matters except those few areas in which they have
  expressly delegated power to the central
  government.

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FEDERALISM

• Federalism is a form of government in which
  powers are shared between a central national
  government and regional and/or local governments.
  A written constitution divides the powers of
  government on a territorial basis.

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FEDERALISM

• CONCEPTS OF American FEDERALISM
• Popular Sovereignty
• Limited Government
• Constitutionalism
• Separation of Powers
• Division of Powers
• Checks and Balances

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FEDERALISM

• Popular Sovereignty is the principle that the
  people of the United States are the source of any
  and all governmental power.
• the consent of the governed
• Limited Government is the principle that
  government is not all powerful, and individuals
  have rights that the government can not take away.

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FEDERALISM

• Constitutionalism is the principle that the
  government and those who govern are bound by
  fundamental law as written in a constitution.
• the rule of law
• Separation of powers is the principle that the
  executive, legislative and judicial branches of
  government are divided among three co-equal
  branches.

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FEDERALISM

• Division of Powers is the Constitutional
  provision by which the powers of government are
  divided on a geographic basis( i.e. between the
  National Government of the United States and the
  50 States).
• Checks and Balances is the principle that the
  powers of the executive, legislative and judicial
  branches overlap to permit each branch of
  government to check the actions of the others.

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FEDERALISM

• The United States Constitution
• Supremacy Clause
• Constitution stands above all other forms of law
• Joins the national government and the States into
  a single governmental unit

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FEDERALISM

• Our federal system is guaranteed in part by the
  10th amendment to the United States Constitution
• The powers not delegated to the United States by
  the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
  States, are reserved to the States respectively,
  or to the people.

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FEDERALISM

• POWERS OF GOVERNMENT
• Delegated powers
• Powers granted the National government in the
  Constitution
• Expressed Powers
• Powers spelled out specifically in the
  Constitution
• Implied Powers
• Powers reasonably thought to be granted, but not
  spelled out specifically in the Constitution
• necessary and proper clause

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FEDERALISM

• POWERS OF GOVERNMENT
• Inherent powers
• powers that belong to a National government
  because it is a sovereign state
• Concurrent powers
• powers possessed and exercised by both National
  and State governments
• Denied powers
• Powers that a specifically denied to a level of
  government in the Constitution

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FEDERALISM
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FEDERALISM

• Power Box 1
• Federal Executive Branch
• President
• Vice President
• All executive agencies
• Power Box 2
• State Executive Branch
• Governor
• Lt. Governor
• All State executive agencies

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FEDERALISM

• Power Box 3
• Local Executive Branch
• Mayor
• School Board
• County Commissioners
• Township Supervisors
• Other county offices (elections/coroner/sheriff/pr
  othonotary, etc)
• Power Box 4
• Federal Legislative Branch
• United States Congress
• U.S. Senate
• U.S. House of Representatives

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FEDERALISM

• Power Box 5
• State Legislative Branch
• Pennsylvania General Assembly
• PA House of Representatives
• PA Senate
• Power Box 6
• Local Legislative Branch
• Borough Council
• School Board
• County Commissioners
• Township Supervisors

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FEDERALISM

• Power Box 7
• Federal Judicial Branch
• U.S. District Courts
• U.S. Circuit Courts
• U.S. Supreme Court 9 justices
• John Roberts, Chief Justice
• Power Box 8
• State Judicial Branch
• Commonwealth Court
• Superior Court
• PA Supreme Court

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FEDERALISM

• Power Box 9
• Local Judicial Branch
• Magisterial District Judge
• Judge, Court of Common Pleas

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EFFICACY

• THE POWER TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT
• THE POWER TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT
• THE POWER TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT THE POWER TO
  PRODUCE AN EFFECT THE POWER TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT
  THE POWER TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT THE POWER TO
  PRODUCE AN EFFECT THE POWER TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT
  THE POWER TO PRODUCE AN EFFECT