POLS 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Enumerated Powers, Supremacy Clause, Marble Cake
21 Mar 2016
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Power sharing between central and regional governments. Origins of federalism: problems with the aricles of confederaion-when the states were having issues, there was no overarching power to look towards. The aricles of confederaion was too weak as the central document of government. 1783-economic recession ater the end of the revoluionary war. We could not get out of the recession or compete in the economic industry. Federalists (interest group) believed in a stronger naional government: fall 1786- annapolis convenion and shay"s rebellion. Annapolis convenion was dealing with interstate trade agreements. People began to pitch the idea of a stronger central government. Shay"s rebellion-rebellion by farmers against state and local enforcement to tax collecion and judgments for debt: desire for representaive government. Advantages of federalism: coninental congress: originally, people gathered to redrat the. Aricles of confederaion-resulted in wriing an enirely new. Consituion: government decisions can relect local preferences, reduces conlict between ciizens and government, allows for policy experimentaion-laboratories of.
