UAPP225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Antonin Scalia, Social Change, Jim Crow Laws
14 Mar 2017
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The constitution constrains government, not the people. The constitutional order changes to address inequities and problems. Civil right amendments and acts and jim crow laws. Historical development of constitutional order - national activism 1933-1961. Post wwii changes and role of government (infrastructure) Brown v board of education of topeka kansas. Historical development of constitutional order - national standards 1960-1980. Reinvigoration of national activism in the 1960s. Historical development of constitutional order - end of big government 1980-present. Started by jimmy carter not ronald reagan. Examples would be deregulation of airlines, truckinger. Government is not the solution to our problem. Spiked in late 1960s, gradual decline ever since. Contractual employees estimates almost double federal personal employees. Relation of the citizens to their government. 1945-1960 : stability and acceptance of government programs. Federal government started small relative to the states. Federal government steadily gained power throughout history. Many contemporary debates on the role of government are not new.
