GOVT 2306 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Marble Cake, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cooperative Federalism
23 Feb 2016
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After reconstruction, dual federalism was embraced, the system in which fundamental governmental powers were strictly separated between the federal and state governments. Citizens" daily lives were more affected by their state governments, not the national government. System of dual federalism was described by morton grodzins as layer-cake federalism. Like layers of a cake, the powers of the national government and the states were largely separate. And the layer of the national government"s powers and responsibilities were much smaller than was the layer of the state governments. Under this government, there were clear limits to the sovereignty of states. States could not nullify national legislation, nor could they secede from the union. But states had a major role to play in governance that was distinct from the role of the government. During franklin roosevelt and great depression and world war ii, relationship between states and government changed drastically. Boundaries between the national and states are blurred.
