EDUC 182AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Elementary And Secondary Education Act, Dual Federalism, Supremacy Clause
23 Feb 2017
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Idiosyncratic political system that makes it difficult to get things done, this is designed on purpose: educational policymaking, under purview of states (for historical reasons, federal government involved only recently. Citizens" virtue comes from participating in community governance: gov must educate people so that they may arrive at a state of virtue. Gov should only facilitate states" ability to determine their own destiny. Centralized gov, run by rational elites, necessary to maintain control. Letting the masses have power will only lead to chaos: anti feds vs. Fed suspicious more of people than elites: agree: Both concerned with protecting individual and property rights. Both agreed that aa and other races should be excluded from us politics: federation: the us system, authority divided between central and state/local govs, constitutionally must satisfy three conditions, 1. Same people and territory must be included in both levels of gov: 2. Each level must be protected from encroachment: two types of federalism, dual federalism.
