POL203Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: World War I, Crackdown
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Race to the bottom (employment - business and states compete with one another) - bidding war/ lowering minimum wages for people to come to their company. Shared federalism: carrots: federal grants: fed has money, wwi, income taxes, money from income taxes originally came from trade, block grants, matching grants: medicare, local law enforcement, head-start, dependant children. Shared federalism: sticks: unfunded mandates, direct orders - clean water act, cross-over sanctions. Immigration and customs enforcement officers: sanctuary cities/states, prevents cooperation. Jails, traffic stops: states can refuse to cooperate, trump"s cause is failing, less people are getting deported. Campus carry, city bans: cities do not have final authority, states can rescind their laws, federal gov"t can"t pass laws restricting their law, cities van guns, states block - constitutional independence. American politics this week: roy moore wins senate seat. Election on deciding who would be a republican candidate - whoever wins the primary election becomes the republican candidate for senator.
