Federalism: one of most importance of contribution of US constitution at the time. Whole new
system. Whole point to find the adequate balance between federal and state governments.
Politicalsystem of us and parties has been much more decentralized than in Europe this last century.
The idea was to have government strong enough to dress issues that pretends the country.
Result: rather complex system. Can be significant differences from 1 to another state. Daily life can
change a lot. Syst of government at federal level is reproduced. Each state = each constitution. Big
cities also have significant powers and amount of autonomy, education, schools . . .
idea of partnership. 80 000 political bodies
I. The foundations of federalism
a. Constitution
Federal guarantee safety if they have strong power at time.
Originally, senates not elected by people but state legislature. House = people, senate = state.
Article I section 8
Article I section 10 = what state cannot do
paper-money craze 1785-87
national supremacy clause: A Vi c2 federal govnmt above state govnmt
Bill of right: added to calm fears of opponents of constitution who are afraid that federal will have
too much power.
10th amendment
All of this explains why daily life may be diff from one state to another
Federal department of education, but does have some power but doesn’t make decisions about what
is taught in school.
5 different types of powers:
-‘delegated powers’ state and people that delegated powers to federal government.
- implied powers’
- ‘inherent powers’ result of Supreme court decisions say that as far as foreign policy is concerned,
federal should be able to conduct foreign policy.
- ‘Reserved powers’
-‘concurrent powers’
b. The Supreme Court
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