POLSCI 101 Lecture Notes - Agricultural Adjustment Act, Jim Crow Laws, Commerce Clause
Document Summary
Will have class on tuesday february 18th (monday schedule: today"s questions. Overarching themes in federalism that we will be talking about: The way the founders imagined the relationship between state and national government. The type of government any regular person would approach with an issue, rather than the federal government. No overlap between federal, state, and local governments. Slavery - led to civil war (bloodiest war in us history) Growing national power and supreme court cases. We see inklings that this system was threatened by federal power at this time. Cautious fiscal policy = high interest rates. Maryland hates the national bank because of high interest rates, so they pass a law to tax this bank. Supreme court is in favor of the federal government in this case. The power to tax is the power to destroy. Says maryland does not have the power to place a tax on an institution of the federal government.
