English 1022E Lecture Notes - Cooperative Federalism

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 1022E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

Central state government = all powers & govern whole state; is not obligated to share power but often do delegate to make things easier for them. Central governments usually create lower level governments: not stated in constitution, very limited challenge to central government, can be un-created". Most common form: 150 states even if they do not appear to be unitary, they often are. Rules such as this emerge. convention and custom. Sub-state actors (regions, cantons, states) give some powers to a federal/central government. Decentralized federation: residual powers belong to lower levels of government residual powers are a question of who gets the powers not delineated (specifically)/ given in constitution (ie military, invention. [computers, sanitation, cars]: ie. airplanes were a responsibility of the lower levels of gov"t to decide what the rules around planes were, Central government is beholden to sub-state actors.