CAS PO 111 Lecture Notes - Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act

• School: Boston University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: CAS PO 111
• Professor: Graham Wilson

Document Summary

Democrats would have to go to ny; republicans to cali: gun legislation in 2012, didn"t get 60 votes in the senate, never discussed, could have been 37% of population, we have thousands of different governments, most powerful are national and state, dictionary definition of federalism: 2 or more states that constitute a political unit while remaining independent within their own affairs, why federalism, historically unified government was impossible as states had prior experience. Businesses, people could move to other states: automobiles are moving to southern states (unions, taxes, sioux falls, nd= credit card industry, delaware effect: corporations based in de, but don"t actually fit, federalism is political economy, states still make decisions that matter. Wickard v. filburn, 1942: federal subsidies, limits on production (help rural economy new deal: under old doctrine, government couldn"t tell him what to do, cumulative impact: if every farmer did what he did, it, obamacare would end up having a huge impact on the economy.