Federalism
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- Created on: 11-06-14 14:48
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- Federalism
- Key concepts
- Federalism
- A theory of government by which political power in divided between a national government and state governments, each having their own area of substantive jurisdiction
- Decentralisation
- The principle by which government and political power is vested not only in the federal government, but also in the state government
- Federalism
- Consequences
- Political parties
- They are state based parties
- Democrats in the South are more conservative than Democrats in the East
- They are state based parties
- Political
- Elections are state based and run under state law
- Arizona has experimented with on-line voting and Montana with an entirely postal ballot
- Elections are state based and run under state law
- Regionalism
- South, Midwest, North-east and the East have distinct clutures
- What the conservatism of the Deep South believes won't be the same as what the liberalism of the North-east believs
- South, Midwest, North-east and the East have distinct clutures
- Policy
- Healthcare provision, immigration reform, affirmative action programmes and environmental policies
- State-based policy usually comes through state-wide propositions
- Economic
- Huge federal grants going to the states and complexity of the tax system
- Income tax is levied by both the federal and some state governments
- Different property taxes are levied by the state government
- Huge federal grants going to the states and complexity of the tax system
- Legal
- Variety in state laws on such matters as the age at which people can marry, drive or attend school, drugs and death penalty
- There are both federal and state courts
- Political parties
- Key concepts
- 1937-1970s enhanced powers of federal government through interpretation of implied powers of the Constituion
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