Alphabetical List of Entries

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• Abortion
• About the Editors and the Contributors
• Abstention
• Adams, John
• Adamson v. California (1947)
• Admission of New States
• Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• Affirmative Action
• Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
• Age Discrimination
• Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
• Albany Plan
• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Amendment Process
• American Indians and Federalism
• American Legion, et al. v. American Humanist Association, et al. (2019)
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
• American System
• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
• Annapolis Convention of 1786
• Anti-Federalists
• Arizona v. United States (2012)
• Articles of Confederation
• Articles of Confederation (full document)
• Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
• Baker v. Carr (1962)
• Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission (1978)
• Banking
• Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
• Benton v. Maryland (1969)
• Bill of Rights
• Bingham, John A.
• Black Codes
• Black, Hugo L.
• Block Grants
• Brandeis, Louis D.
• Brennan, William J., Jr.
• Bronson v. Kinzie (1843)
• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
• Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal (1973)
• Burger, Warren Earl
• Burgess, Michael
• Bush v. Gore (2000)
• Bush, George H.W.
• Calhoun, John C.
• Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
• Capital Punishment
• Campaign Politics
• Carter v. Carter Coal Company (1936)
• Categorical Grants
• Champion v. Ames (1903)
• Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company (1837)
• Chiafalo v. Washington (2020)
• Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)
• Citizenship
• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
• Civil Rights
• Civil Rights Act of 1875
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil War
• Clark, Jane Perry
• Class Action Fairness Act (2005)
• Clay, Henry
• Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972
• Coercive Federalism
• Cohens v. Virginia (1821)
• Cole v. Arkansas (1948)
• Colegrove v. Green (1946)
• Comity
• Commerce among the States
• Commerce with Foreign Nations
• Commerce with the Indian Tribes
• Common Core State Standards (inc. Race to the Top) (2009)
• Community Development Block Grants
• Compact Clause
• Compact Theory
• Competitive Federalism
• Comprehensive Employment and Training Act
• Compromise of 1850
• Concurrent Powers
• Conditional Grants
• Confederate States of America
• Confederation
• Connecticut Compromise
• Constitutional Convention of 1787
• Constitutionalism
• Continental Congress
• Contract Clause
• Contract with America
• Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852)
• Cooperative Federalism
• Corfield v. Coryell (1823)
• Corruption, Prosecution of
• Council of State Governments
• Councils of Governments
• County Government
• Covenant
• Covenants
• Craig v. Boren (1976)
• Creative Federalism
• Criminal Justice
• Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council (2000)
• Crosscutting Requirements
• Crossover Sanctions
• Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health (1990)
• Dairy Compacts
• Darby Lumber Company v. United States (1941)
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)
• De Jonge v. Oregon (1937)
• Decentralization
• Declaration of Independence
• Democracy and Federalism
• Deregulation
• Devolution
• Dillon’s Rule
• Direct Election of Senators
• Disaster Relief Act of 1974
• Diversity of Citizenship Jurisdiction
• Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022)
• Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010)
• Dormant Commerce Clause
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Dual Citizenship
• Dual Federalism
• Due Process
• Due Process Clause
• Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)
• Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)
• Economic Development
• Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
• Education
• Education Commission of the States
• Edwards v. California (1941)
• Eisenhower, Dwight D.
• Elections
• Electoral College
• Electric Industry Restructuring
• Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
• Eleventh Amendment
• Eminent Domain
• Enumerated Powers of the U.S. Constitution
• Environmental Policy
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wyoming (1983)
• Equal Protection of the Laws
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938)
• Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
• Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (replaced NCLB) (2015)
• Exclusionary Rule
• Exclusive Powers
• Executive Branch Organizations
• Executive Orders
• Externalities/Spillovers
• Extradition and Rendition
• Federal Courts
• Federal-Local Relations
• Federal-State Relations
• Federalism
• Federalism Summit
• The Federalist Papers
• Federalists
• Fifteenth Amendment
• Fiscal Federalism
• Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act 2015
• Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
• Foreign Policy
• Formula Grants
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt (2019)
• Frankfurter, Felix
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Fugitive Slave Acts
• Fugitive Slave Provision: Article IV
• Fugitive Slaves and American Federalism
• Full Faith and Credit Clause: Article IV, Section 1
• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
• Furman v. Georgia (1972)
• Gamble v. United States (2019)
• Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)
• Gender and Federalism
• General Revenue Sharing
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
• Gitlow v. New York (1925)
• Gonzales v. Oregon (2006)
• Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
• Governors and Federalism
• Grants-in-Aid
• Graves, W. Brooke
• Great Society
• Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
• Griggs v. Duke Powers Company (1971)
• Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
• Grodzins, Morton M.
• Guarantee Clause
• Gun Control
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
• Harlan, John Marshall
• Hartford Convention
• Health Care Policy
• Help America Vote Act (2002)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)
• Higher Education Act
• Higher Education Compacts
• Hines v. Davidowitz (1941)
• Hipolite Egg Company v. United States (1911)
• Holmes v. Walton (1780)
• Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell (1934)
• Home Rule
• Homeland Security
• Homestead Act of 1862
• Horizontal Federalism
• Housing
• Identity Politics in the Federal System
• Illegal Immigrants
• Immigration Policy
• Implied Powers of the U.S. Constitution
• Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights
• Independent and Adequate State Grounds
• Infrastructure Policy
• Insurance
• Interest-Group System
• Interest Groups in the Federal System
• Intergovernmental Lobbying
• Intergovernmental Management
• Intergovernmental Relations
• Intergovernmental Tax Immunity
• Interlocal Relations
• Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act
• Internal Improvements
• International City/County Management Association
• Internet Taxes
• Interposition
• Interstate Commerce
• Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
• Interstate Compacts
• Interstate Relations
• Interstate Rendition
• Iroquois Confederation
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jefferson, Thomas
• Johnson, Lyndon B.
• Judiciary Act of 1789, Section 25
• Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
• Katzenbach v. Morgan (1965)
• Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
• Kestnbaum Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• Klopfer v. North Carolina (1967)
• Land Use
• Layer Cake Federalism
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Livingston, William S.
• Local Government
• Lochner v. New York (1905)
• Louisiana Purchase
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)
• Luther v. Borden (1849)
• Madison, James
• Madison v. Alabama (2019)
• Malloy v. Hogan (1964)
• Mandates
• Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
• Marble Cake Federalism
• Marijuana
• Marshall, John
• Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816)
• Mason, George
• Matching Requirements
• McCarran-Ferguson Act
• McCray v. United States (1904)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)
• McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)
• Media in the Federal System
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Metropolitan Planning Organizations
• Michigan v. Long (1983)
• Military Affairs
• Minimum Wage
• Minorities in the Federal System
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Missouri v. Holland (1920)
• Model Cities Program
• Mount Lemmon Fire District v. John Guido, et al. (2019)
• Morality Policy
• Morrill Act of 1862
• Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (2012)
• Municipal Government
• Municipal Securities / Municipal Bonds
• Munn v. State of Illinois (1876)
• Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (2018)
• Nathan, Richard P.
• National Association of Counties
• National Association of Towns and Townships
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• National Defense and Interstate Highway Act of 1956
• National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012)
• National Governors’ Association
• National Guard
• National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933
• National Labor Relations Act of 1935
• National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)
• National League of Cities
• National League of Cities v. Usery (1976)
• National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (2006)
• National Security
• Nationalization of the Bill of Rights
• Native American Sovereignty
• Native Americans
• Near v. Minnesota (1931)
• Necessary and Proper Clause
• New Deal
• New Federalism (Nixon)
• New Federalism (Reagan)
• New Jersey Plan
• New Judicial Federalism
• New Partnership Federalism
• New State Ice Company v. Liebmann (1932)
• New York v. United States (1992)
• Nixon, Richard M.
• No Child Left Behind Act
• Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987)
• Noncentralization
• North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission (2015)
• Northwest Ordinance of 1784
• Northwest Ordinance of 1787
• Nullification
• Obama, Barack
• Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
• O’Connor, Sandra Day
• Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court
• Palko v. Connecticut (1937)
• Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton (2019)
• Parker v. Gladden (1966)
• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• Pass through Requirements
• Pennsylvania v. Nelson (1956)
• Perez v. United States (1971)
• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
• Picket Fence Federalism
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• Pointer v. Texas (1965)
• Police Power
• Policy Diffusion
• Political Culture
• Political Movements in the Federal System
• Political Parties
• Preemption
• Presidency
• Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)
• Printz v. United States (1997)
• Privileges and Immunities Clause: Article IV
• Privileges and Immunities Clause: Fourteenth Amendment
• Project Grants
• Public Administration
• Public Administration in the Federal System
• Public Authorities
• Public Interest Groups
• Public Lands
• Public Officials’ Associations
• Race and Federalism
• Racial Discrimination
• Reagan, Ronald
• REAL ID (2005)
• Reapportionment
• Reconstruction
• Reed v. Reed (1971)
• Referendum
• Regional Higher Education Compacts
• Rehnquist, William
• Report on Manufactures
• Republican Guarantee Clause
• Reserved Powers
• Revenue Sharing
• Review of Federalism in America
• Reynolds v. Sims (1964)
• Riker, William H.
• Roberts Court
• Roberts, John
• Robinson v. California (1962)
• Roe v. Wade (1973)
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• Rucho et al. v. Common Cause et al. (2019)
• Rural Policy
• Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (2005)
• Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2016
• Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974
• Sanctuary Cities
• Scalia, Antonin
• Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)
• Schilb v. Kuebel (1971)
• School Districts
• Secession
• Second Amendment
• Sectionalism and Regionalism
• Self-government and Federalism
• Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996)
• Seventeenth Amendment
• Sex Discrimination
• Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)
• Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)
• Shreveport Rate Case
• Sixteenth Amendment
• Slaughterhouse Cases
• Slavery
• Social Security Act of 1935
• South Carolina v. Baker (1988)
• South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
• South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (2018)
• Southern Railway Company v. Reid (1912)
• Sovereign Immunity
• Sovereignty
• Special Districts
• Spending Power
• State Constitutional Law
• State Constitutional Rights Federalism
• State Constitutions
• State Courts
• State Government
• State Innovation Exchange (2015)
• State Legislatures
• State-Local Relations
• State Mandates
• States’ Rights
• Stone v. Mississippi (1880)
• Stream of Commerce
• Substantive Due Process
• Suits Between States
• Supremacy Clause: Article VI, Clause 2
• Supreme Court of the United States
• Taft-Hartley Act
• Takings Clause: Fifth Amendment
• Taney, Roger Brooke
• Tax Competition
• Tax Coordination
• Taxing and Spending Power
• Taxing Power
• Telecommunications
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act
• Tenth Amendment
• Texas v. White (1869)
• Thomas, Clarence
• Timbs v. Indiana (2019)
• Three-fifths Compromise
• Toomer v. Witsell (1948)
• Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-first Century
• Transportation Policy
• Trump, Donald
• Unfunded Mandates
• U.S. Conference of Mayors
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Constitution
• U.S. Constitution (full document)
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Territories
• United States Term Limits v. Thornton (1995)
• United States v. Cooley (2021)
• United States v. Windsor (2013)
• United States Trust Company v. New Jersey (1977)
• United States v. Butler (1936)
• United States v. E. C. Knight Company (1895)
• United States v. Lopez (1995)
• United States v. Morrison (2002)
• Urban Policy
• USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
• Virginia Plan
• Virginia v. Tennessee (1893)
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Wagner Act
• Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015)
• Wallace, George C.
• Washington, D. C.
• Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
• Washington v. Texas (1967)
• Watts, Ronald L.
• Webster, Daniel
• Webster-Hayne Debate
• Welfare Policy
• West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937)
• Wheare, Kenneth Clinton
• White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
• Wickard v. Filburn (1942)
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Wolf v. Colorado (1949)
• Women's Leadership in the Federal System
• Women’s Rights
• Younger v. Harris (1971)
• Zoning
• 2016 Presidential Election