Federalism Chapter 3

CBT: Redemption Love God’s absolute law gives specific directions on how to love God and others  What were relations between state and federal governments under the Articles of Confederation?  What was are the heart of the issues between them?  How do the ideas of Federalism that are laid out in Article 4 help to solve the relational conflicts?  How does this fit in with God’s laws on relating to each other properly?

Types of Federalism

 Dual  Often called “layer cake”  Federal and state governments act within their own realm – Constitution is the glue  Lincoln and the secession of the South  Federalism that was in place until the New Deal

 Cooperative  Often called “marble cake”  Federal and state governments often share powers causing a blending between the two spheres  Began with the New Deal  Characterized by the movement of money between the Federal and State governments  A form of leverage to get States to work within Federal policies

 New Federalism  Reagan Revolution brought a decline in federal aid to states  Welfare reform and a return to “Laboratories of Democracy” were emphasized  Programs were consolidated and given blocks of money to spend

 The Devolution Revolution  The Contract with America – scaling back the federal government  National laws were written that required state cooperation without any extra funds to make the program work

 Bush and Preemption  National government overrides state or local actions  State governments had to amend existing programs according to federal goals rather than their own  No Child Left Behind

Dual Cooperative MarblePermissive Competitive New List of powers for national and the rest left to the states. The Supreme court is the umpire between the feds and states. This was favored by the Supreme Court for the first 100 years. Stresses federalism as a system of intergovern- mental goods and services to the people and calls for cooperation among various levels of government Term coined by Morton Grodzins conceives of federalism as all levels of governmen t are involved in a variety of issues and programs. Implies that although federalism provides a sharing of power and authority between the national and state government s rest on the permission and permiss- iveness of the national government Term created by political scientist Thomas R. Dye, views the national governmen t, 50 states and thousands of other units competitng with each other Favored by Nixon, Reagan and Bush. Emphasizes that many resources and responsibilities of the federal government should be returned to the states in large block grants and revenue sharing

 Judicial Federalism  Supreme Court rulings dictate what will happen at the state level