01:790:104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: National Minimum Drinking Age Act, Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act, Marble Cake
29 Feb 2016
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Unitary systems: centralized gov. in which regional gov. receive most authority from the national gov. (france, uk, japan, sweden) Dual federalism: a constitutional interpretation that gave the federal government exclusive control over some issues and states exclusive control over others. The federal government was small and dealt primarily with foreign afairs and commerce: internal improvements like roads and canals, tarifs (taxes on imports), patents, currency. Overall, states performed the majority of governing over citizens" day-to-day lives: economic regulation and property law, civil law (marriage, divorce, adoption, criminal law) Some early u. s. supreme court decisions helped to deine national power: mcculloch v. maryland (1819): the supreme court ruled that the u. s. congress had, through its implied powers, the legal right to charter a national bank. Cooperative federalism: model in which the various levels of the gov. mix (marble cake) and cooperate on some policies. For the most part, the new national programs that president roosevelt developed came through grants-in-aid.
