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• Commerce with Foreign Nations
  ...ed similar to those of its domestic analogue, in recent years, especially, the federal power over foreign commerce has been construed more broadly against ...hat did not discriminate against commerce among the states was acceptable. The dormant foreign commerce power, like its domestic counterpart, both drew up
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• Confederate States of America
  ...slature with each state having one vote and the president being elected by the Congress to serve one six-year term. ...ture a reformed union geared toward the collective interests of its member states.
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• Constitutional Convention of 1787
  ...introduced in American federalism have in turn revolutionized the practice of federalism worldwide. ...berations. The Convention ended on September 17, when the delegates signed the draft constitution they had prepared.
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• Councils of Governments
  ...social planners, and supporting personnel, although the staff of councils of governments situated in metropolitan areas are typically significantly larg ...d amount of federal support and virtually no support from their respective states.
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• Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council (2000)
  ...pted by sanctions on Burma enacted at the federal level three months after the state measure. ...tion), the Court found that the state law thwarted Congress’s intent for the nation to speak with “one voice” on Burma policy.
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• Devolution
  ...s rights of autonomous self-government. Decentralization also implies that the central or higher-level entity can unilaterally recentralize authority. ...of a regional or local government to (1) adopt and collect its own sources of revenue (e.g., levy sales, income, or property taxes), (2) set its own tax
  9 KB (1,242 words) - 05:48, 17 August 2018
• Dual Citizenship
  ...be a citizen of two, or even more, nations. Finally, one can be a citizen of an indigenous group such as Native American tribes. In many respects, then, ...of federal court jurisdiction to disputes between “citizens of different states” (Article III, Section 2).
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• Dual Federalism
  ...nsibilities, and resources of each layer remain separate and distinct from the others. ..., and welfare. Dual federalism was the predominant theory for interpreting the Constitution from 1789 to 1901.
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• Economic Development
  ...President Washington’s cabinet debating the proposed Bank of the United States. ...economies into a national economy was desired by the Hamiltonians, whereas the Jeffersonians sought a self-sufficient economy based primarily on agricultu
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• Eisenhower, Dwight D.
  ...ecognize the staying power of the New Deal and the potential positive uses of national government power. ...nd track the development of American [[federalism]] led to the creation of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in 1959.
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• Electoral College
  ...” although that phrase does not appear in the [[U.S. Constitution|United States Constitution]]. ...nment during that long, hot summer in Philadelphia. Two main ideas were on the table: a national popular vote versus legislative selection.
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• Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965
  ...of Sputnik (the first orbiting satellite) which underscored the importance of education (and in particular science and engineering). ...1964]], however—and particularly Title VI which outlawed the allocation of federal funds to segregated programs—would prevent federal education bill
  15 KB (2,200 words) - 19:27, 27 August 2018
• Enumerated Powers of the U.S. Constitution
  ...erpreted by Congress, the president, and the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] that as a practical matter there is very little, if anythin ...but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;''
  8 KB (1,356 words) - 20:05, 27 August 2018
• Federal Courts
  ...national courts of appeals, and the 9-member [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. ...s by review by Article III courts. Article III courts review the decisions of other Article I courts directly.
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• Federal-Local Relations
  ...erally collaborative, although federal restrictions on the permissible use of grants is sometimes a chafing point. ...ir elected representatives in Congress, who are, after all, elected within states.
  22 KB (3,235 words) - 20:52, 4 July 2018
• Federal-State Relations
  ...e not very clear and some have been the basis for major controversies over the years. ...gained by clicking the hyperlinks in this entry and the topics at the end of this entry.
  25 KB (3,755 words) - 01:35, 15 September 2018
• Federalism
  ...and implemented through negotiation in some form, it enables all to share the system’s decision making and decision-making processes. ...thentically federal systems and political systems that utilize elements of the federal principle, (4) mature and emergent federal systems, and (5) federal
  71 KB (10,449 words) - 05:54, 13 September 2018
• Foreign Affairs and Federalism
  ...ased global interdependencies. Importantly, challenges to national control of foreign policy making and implementation are not an American phenomenon, bu ...seas and states opened offices abroad during this decade. Since that time, states and localities have continually sought to further their global connections
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• Frankfurter, Felix
  ...restraint, and states’ rights–oriented decisions, that won him legions of judicial followers. ...ould become recognized as one of the foremost legal scholars in the United States.
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• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
  ...vel in state waters from the New York State Legislature. While negotiating the [[Louisiana Purchase]] in Paris, France, in 1802, Livingston formed a partn ...to New York City. After protracted litigation, Ogden bought a license from the Fulton-Livingston cartel in 1815.
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