POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Concurrent Powers
23 Feb 2017
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Federal system: state and national government share power. Confederation: nat"l gov that derives all power from states. Unitary: local and regional derive from central who has all power ex. Concurrent powers: an authority possessed by state and national share ex. Cannot lay duties (taxes) on items exported from any state. Cannot arbitrarily affect a (cid:272)itizen"s constitutional rights/liberties. No bill of attainders or ex post facto laws- a law which punishes people for a crime that was not a crime when it was committed. Early federalism: marshall court (1801 1835, mcculloch v. maryland (1819), gibbons v. ogden (1824)- granted power to regulate interstate commerce, national government supreme. Dual federalism- separate and equally powerful to state government (layered cake-canada, Quebec: dred scott v. sandford (1857)- court ruled in favor of states rights, plessy v. ferguson (1896, states rights rulings. Brown vs. board of education- no longer segregated schools.
