PSC 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Federal Preemption, U.S. Bancorp, Wachovia
15 Oct 2015
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
How you treat citizens of your state you must do the: privileges and immunities, extradition: criminals cannot escape by crossing state lines. 3/4ths of the states ratify it in state legislatures. A constitutional convention called by congress upon petition by 2/3rd of the states. Clause: constitution and federal aw are supreme; state judges and state laws bound by it: all federal and state officers bound by oath of the constitution, no religious test to qualify for office in us. What is federalism? government: national, sub-national (states, provinces, cantons, etc. , structurally, federalism is a compromise between: Unitary system all power is centralized within national government and a. Confederation power is located among the independent units, with almost no power at the center. Government powers expressed or enumerated: the constitution delegates powers to the national government. These are known as enumerated, or expressed, powers. (power to regulate commerce, declare war)
