POL SCI 21A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Commerce Clause, Supremacy Clause, Federalist No. 10
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The second try: constitutional liberalism: separation of powers, legislative. -bicameral design: executive, judicial, checks and balances, on congress: pres veto, judicial review, etc, on president: congress override, impeach, etc, on robes: congress changes jurisdiction, impeach, etc. +federalism (federalist 10 & 51) (idea of having two layers of govt. with jurisdiction over each other: supremacy clause, commerce clause, 10th amendment. The political fault lines: federal vs. state, slave states vs. non-slave states, big states vs. small states. -resolution : supremacy clause, commerce clause, federalism, 10th amendment.