POLI 2051 Lecture Notes - National Power, Extradition Clause, Sixteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
Document Summary
Enumerated powers - laid out specifically in constitution. State powers under the constitution: state powers aren"t enumerated, 10th amendment. Concurrent powers under the constitution: overlapping powers. Powers denied under the constitution: no state favoritism, no title of nobility, bills of attainer (law declaring an act illegal without judicial trial, ex post facto laws (make something a crime when it was legal) Interstate relations under the constitution: supreme court settles disputes, full faith and credit clause, privileges and immunities clause, extradition clause (back to state where you did the crime, interstate compacts (agreements between states, state boundaries, driver licenses) Local governments: no power, operate under state charter (dillon"s rule 1868, counties. 3. 3 dual federalism: states rights, civil war, and reconstruction: states assert power: nullification. Southern states used nullification to resist intergrating schools: states rights and dred scott decision (1857) (limited national, reconstruction and the transformation of dual federalism. Civil war - destroy nullification and dual federalism.
