Topical List
Contents
Policy Areas
Amendment Process
Bill of Rights
Concurrent Powers
Connecticut Compromise
Contract Clause
Due Process
Electoral College
Eleventh Amendment
Equal Protection of the Laws
Equal Rights Amendment
Enumerated Powers of the U.S. Constitution
Fifteenth Amendment
Fourteenth Amendment
Implied Powers of the U.S. Constitution
Internal Improvements
Interstate Commerce
Articles of Confederation
Necessary and Proper Clause
New Jersey Plan
Reserved Powers
Police Power
Seventeenth Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment
Supremacy Clause: Article VI, Clause 2
Taxing and Spending Power
Tenth Amendment
Three-fifths Compromise
U.S. Constitution
Virginia Plan
Nationalization of the Bill of Rights
Fiscal Federalism
Block Grants
Categorical Grants
Conditional Grants
Intergovernmental Tax Immunity
Project Grants
Grants-in-Aid
Revenue Sharing
Tax Competition
Tax Coordination
Historical Events
Albany Plan
Annapolis Convention of 1786
American System
Anti-Federalists
Articles of Confederation
Civil War
Compromise of 1850
Confederate States of America
Constitutional Convention of 1787
The Federalist Papers
Federalists
Fugitive Slave Acts
Great Society
Hartford Convention
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Missouri Compromise of 1820
Webster-Hayne Debate
Institutions
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
Council of State Governments
Dairy Compacts
Federalism Summit
Councils of Governments
Metropolitan Planning Organizations
Model Cities Program
National Association of Counties
National Association of Towns and Townships
National Conference of State Legislatures
National Guard
National Governors’ Association
U.S. Conference of Mayors
U.S. Congress
Political Parties
Intergovernmental Relations
Crosscutting Requirements
Crossover Sanctions
Dillon’s Rule
Executive Orders
Federal-Local Relations
Federal-State Relations
Home Rule
Interlocal Relations
Interstate Compacts
Local Government
Mandates
Interstate Relations
Public Administration
State Constitutional Law
Preemption
State Constitutions
State Government
State-Local Relations
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
Foreign Affairs and Federalism
Extradition and Rendition
Legislation
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Compromise of 1850
Contract with America
Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
National Labor Relations Act of 1935
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act
Taft-Hartley Act
Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-first Century
Unfunded Mandates
Northwest Ordinance of 1784
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Models and Theories of Federalism
Coercive Federalism
Competitive Federalism
Cooperative Federalism
Covenant
Creative Federalism
Decentralization
Deregulation
Devolution
Dual Federalism
Layer Cake Federalism
New Deal
New Federalism (Reagan)
New Federalism (Nixon)
Interposition
Noncentralization
Nullification
Picket Fence Federalism
Marble Cake Federalism
Secession
States’ Rights
Policy Areas
Abortion
Affirmative Action
Age Discrimination
Criminal Justice
Economic Development
Education
Elections
Electric Industry Restructuring
Environmental Policy
Foreign Affairs and Federalism
Health Care Policy
Gender and Federalism
Insurance
Internal Improvements
Housing
Medicaid
Medicare
Morality Policy
Native Americans
Public Lands
Slavery
Telecommunications
Transportation Policy
Welfare Policy
Urban Policy
Political/Historical Figures
Black, Hugo L.
Brandeis, Louis D.
Burger, Warren Earl
Brennan, William J., Jr.
Calhoun, John C.
Clay, Henry
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
Franklin, Benjamin
Hamilton, Alexander
Frankfurter, Felix
Jackson, Andrew
Johnson, Lyndon B.
Lincoln, Abraham
Madison, James
Marshall, John
Mason, George
O’Connor, Sandra Day
Reagan, Ronald
Rehnquist, William
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Taney, Roger Brooke
Thomas, Clarence
Wallace, George C.
Webster, Daniel
Wilson, Woodrow
Jefferson, Thomas
Supreme Court Cases
Adamson v. California (1947)
Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission (1978)
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Benton v. Maryland (1969)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Bronson v. Kinzie (1843)
Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal (1973)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
Carter v. Carter Coal Company (1936)
Champion v. Ames (1903)
Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company (1837)
Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
Cole v. Arkansas (1948)
Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852)
Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council (2000)
City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
Colegrove v. Green (1946)
Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health (1990)
Darby Lumber Company v. United States (1941)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
De Jonge v. Oregon (1937)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)
Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
Edwards v. California (1941)
Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938)
Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Griggs v. Duke Powers Company (1971)
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
Hines v. Davidowitz (1941)
Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell (1934)
Hipolite Egg Company v. United States (1911)
Klopfer v. North Carolina (1967)
Katzenbach v. Morgan (1965)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Luther v. Borden (1849)
Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)
Malloy v. Hogan (1964)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816)
McCray v. United States (1904)
Michigan v. Long (1983)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
Missouri v. Holland (1920)
National League of Cities v. Usery (1976)
New State Ice Company v. Liebmann (1932)
New York v. United States (1992)
Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987)
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
Palko v. Connecticut (1937)
Parker v. Gladden (1966)
Pennsylvania v. Nelson (1956)
Perez v. United States (1971)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Pointer v. Texas (1965)
Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
Printz v. United States (1997)
Robinson v. California (1962)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
Reed v. Reed (1971)
Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
Schilb v. Kuebel (1971)
South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
Slaughterhouse Cases
Stone v. Mississippi (1880)
Southern Railway Company v. Reid (1912)
Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)
Texas v. White (1869)
United States Trust Company v. New Jersey (1977)
Toomer v. Witsell (1948)
United States v. Butler (1936)
United States v. E. C. Knight Company (1895)
United States v. Lopez (1995)
United States v. Morrison (2002)
Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
Washington v. Texas (1967)
Younger v. Harris (1971)
West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937)
Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996)
Griffin v. California
South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (2018)