Alphabetical List of Entries

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• Abortion
• About the Editors and the Contributors
• Abstention
• Adams, John
• Adamson v. California
• 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 Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)
• American System
• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
• Annapolis Convention of 1786
• Anti-Federalists
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2
• Arizona v. U.S. (2012)
• Articles of Confederation
• Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company
• Baker v. Carr
• Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission
• Banking
• Barron v. Baltimore
• Benton v. Maryland
• Bill of Rights
• Bingham, John A.
• Black Codes
• Black, Hugo L.
• Block Grants
• Brandeis, Louis D.
• Brennan, William J., Jr.
• Bronson v. Kinzie
• Brown v. Board of Education
• Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal
• Burger, Warren Earl
• Bush v. Gore
• Bush, George H.W.
• Calhoun, John C.
• Cantwell v. Connecticut
• Capital Punishment
• Campaign Politics
• Carter v. Carter Coal Company
• Categorical Grants
• Champion v. Ames
• Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company
• Chisholm v. Georgia
• Citizenship
• City of Boerne v. Flores
• Civil Rights
• Civil Rights Act of 1875
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil War
• Class Action Fairness Act (2005)
• Clay, Henry
• Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972
• Coercive Federalism
• Cohens v. Virginia
• Cole v. Arkansas
• Colegrove v. Green
• 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
• Cooperative Federalism
• Corfield v. Coryell
• Corruption, Prosecution of
• Council of State Governments
• Councils of Governments
• County Government
• Covenant
• Covenants
• Craig v. Boren
• Creative Federalism
• Criminal Justice
• Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council
• Crosscutting Requirements
• Crossover Sanctions
• Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health
• Dairy Compacts
• Darby Lumber Company v. United States
• Dartmouth College v. Woodward
• De Jonge v. Oregon
• 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
• Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010)
• Dormant Commerce Clause
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Dual Citizenship
• Dual Federalism
• Due Process
• Due Process Clause
• Duncan v. Louisiana
• Dunn v. Blumstein
• Economic Development
• Economic Opportunity Act of 1964
• Education
• Education Commission of the States
• Edwards v. California
• 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
• Equal Protection of the Laws
• Equal Rights Amendment
• Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
• Everson v. Board of Education
• 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
• Foreign Policy
• Formula Grants
• Fourteenth Amendment
• 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
• Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority
• Gender and Federalism
• General Revenue Sharing
• Gibbons v. Ogden
• Gideon v. Wainwright
• Gitlow v. New York
• Gonzales v Oregon (2006)
• Gonzales v. Raich (2005)
• Governors and Federalism
• Grants-in-Aid
• Great Society
• Gregg v. Georgia
• Griggs v. Duke Powers Company
• Griswold v. Connecticut
• Guarantee Clause
• Gun Control
• Hamilton, Alexander
• Hammer v. Dagenhart
• Harlan, John Marshall
• Hartford Convention
• Health Care Policy
• Help America Vote Act (2002)
• Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States
• Higher Education Act
• Higher Education Compacts
• Hines v. Davidowitz
• Hipolite Egg Company v. United States
• Holmes v. Walton
• Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell
• 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 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
• Kelo v. City of New London (2005)
• Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
• Kestnbaum Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• Klopfer v. North Carolina
• Land Use
• Layer Cake Federalism
• Lincoln, Abraham
• Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Local Government
• Lochner v. New York
• Louisiana Purchase
• Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council
• Luther v. Borden
• Madison, James
• Malloy v. Hogan
• Mandates
• Mapp v. Ohio
• Marble Cake Federalism
• Marijuana
• Marshall, John
• Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee
• Mason, George
• Matching Requirements
• McCarran-Ferguson Act
• McCray v. United States
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)
• Media in the Federal System
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Metropolitan Planning Organizations
• Michigan v. Long
• Military Affairs
• Minimum Wage
• Minorities in the Federal System
• Miranda v. Arizona
• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Missouri v. Holland
• Model Cities Program
• 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
• 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
• National League of Cities
• National League of Cities v. Usery
• National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (2006)
• National Security
• Nationalization of the Bill of Rights
• Native American Sovereignty
• Native Americans
• Near v. Minnesota
• 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
• New York v. United States
• Nixon, Richard M.
• No Child Left Behind Act
• Nollan v. California Coastal Commission
• 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, 576 U.S. __ (2015)
• O’Connor, Sandra Day
• Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court
• Palko v. Connecticut
• Parker v. Gladden
• Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• Pass through Requirements
• Pennsylvania v. Nelson
• Perez v. United States
• Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996
• Picket Fence Federalism
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Pointer v. Texas
• Police Power
• Policy Diffusion
• Political Culture
• Political Movements in the Federal System
• Political Parties
• Preemption
• Presidency
• Prigg v. Pennsylvania
• Printz v. United States
• 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
• 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
• Roberts Court
• Roberts, John
• Robinson v. California
• Roe v. Wade
• Roosevelt, Franklin D.
• Roosevelt, Theodore
• 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
• Schilb v. Kuebel
• School Districts
• Secession
• Second Amendment
• Sectionalism and Regionalism
• Self-government and Federalism
• Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida
• Seventeenth Amendment
• Sex Discrimination
• Shapiro v. Thompson
• 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
• South Dakota v. Dole
• South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc.
• Southern Railway Company v. Reid
• Sovereign Immunity
• Sovereignty
• Special Districts
• Spending Power
• State Constitutional Law
• State Constitutions
• State Courts
• State Government
• State Innovation Exchange (2015)
• State Legislatures
• State-Local Relations
• State Mandates
• States’ Rights
• Stone v. Mississippi
• 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
• Thomas, Clarence
• Timbs v. Indiana (2019)
• Three-fifths Compromise
• Toomer v. Witsell
• Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-first Century
• Transportation Policy
• Trump, Donald
• Unfunded Mandates
• U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
• U.S. Conference of Mayors
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Constitution
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton
• U.S. Territories
• U.S. v. Windsor (2013)
• United States Trust Company v. New Jersey
• United States v. Butler
• United States v. E. C. Knight Company
• United States v. Lopez
• United States v. Morrison
• Urban Policy
• USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
• Virginia Plan
• 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
• Washington v. Texas
• Webster, Daniel
• Webster-Hayne Debate
• Welfare Policy
• West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish
• White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs
• Wickard v. Filburn
• Wilson, Woodrow
• Wolf v. Colorado
• Women's Leadership in the Federal System
• Women’s Rights
• Younger v. Harris
• Zoning
• 2016 Presidential Election