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  • * [[Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations]] * [[Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission (1978)]]
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  • ...to simplify and coordinate tax laws and administrative practices to reduce intergovernmental competition and taxpayer compliance burdens. ...stablishment of a focal point in the federal executive branch to deal with intergovernmental problems.
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  • .... Many officials felt federal funds were more likely to be allocated based on the grantsmanship abilities of local governments (especially the biggest ci ...rant for law enforcement assistance was passed. In his first major address on domestic policy issues, President Richard Nixon called for a “[[New Feder
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  • ...distributed to jurisdictions entitled to funds by the authorizing statute on the basis of a numeric formula that takes into account the relative need of Project grants are awarded on a competitive basis by the administering agency, generally following the re
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  • ...es on the states. The term refers to the predominant mode of federal-state relations, especially in policy making, and does not exclude elements of [[Cooperativ ...s’s constitutionally enumerated powers and also to extract more spending on federal objectives from state and local governments. An example is the 21-y
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  • ...8); and Bonnie B. Snedeker and David M. Snedeker, ''CETA: Decentralization on Trial'' (Salt Lake City, UT: Olympus Publishing Company, 1978).
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  • ...mpt the states in that particular area. These coercive sanctions are based on Congress’s constitutional authority to spend for the general welfare. ...ngton, DC: ACIR, 1984), 7–11; and Joseph F. Zimmerman, “National-State Relations: Cooperative Federalism in the Twentieth Century,” ''Publius: The Journal
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  • ...unctions. Privatization may or may not involve decentralization, depending on the degree of monopolization or cartelization that exists within the market ...r own tax rules and rates, (3) borrow funds, and (4) expend their revenues on locally determined programs and projects. Decentralization with respect to
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  • ...ed devolving various programs to state and local governments; however, the Commission referred to its proposals as “turnbacks,” namely, restorations to state ...Printing Office, 1986); and U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, ''Devolving Selected Federal-Aid Highway Programs and Revenue Bases: A Cr
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  • ...m.” Though a doctrinaire conservative on most questions of federal-state relations, Eisenhower was nevertheless pragmatic enough, both in terms of politics an ...lism]] led to the creation of the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in 1959.
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  • ...ing the concept, devoted two chapters formally titled “Intergovernmental Relations” in his comprehensive (fifty-two-chapter) ''American Government'' textboo ...tly the concept necessarily has to be formulated largely in terms of human relations and human behavior under the conditions that prevail when different people
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  • ...o unwind, reform, and reorganize the federal system. On June 28, 1955, the Commission presented its report to the Congress and the president. ...e governments “would be undermined.” In short, the Commission, relying on the Constitution and its interpretation of the intent of the framers, concl
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  • ...es not frequently encompass all significant spending by nonfederal parties on federally assisted programs—the degree of “overmatch” by recipients i ...is only relevant to control federal costs when federal funds are provided on an open-ended basis through reimbursement of all claims—in few programs t
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  • ...title of nobility.” The section alternatively can be termed a restraint on the exercise of state powers. ...into a interstate compact or a compact with a foreign nation, place a duty on tonnage, or have troops or ships of war “unless actually invaded, or in s
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  • ...affects the way in which they conduct campaigns, including positions taken on issues, travel itineraries, and the allocation of advertising. It presumabl ...overnment’s influence in [[Intergovernmental Relations|intergovernmental relations]]. Large grants have been given for both public welfare and public works.
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  • The American political system operates on the principle of limited government; if problems arise, they are best addre ...hts revolution and President [[Johnson, Lyndon B.|Lyndon Johnson’s]] War on Poverty. By the end of the 1960's, the increases in domestic spending, as w
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  • ...rendum. School districts are often required to hold hearings and elections on increasing their debt load. ...ts” or “fiscal notes”) to estimate the financial burden of a mandate on a [[Local Government|local government]]. The intent of these notes usually
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  • ...ons. Mandates can consist of either affirmative obligations to take action on a policy problem, such as the treatment of municipal sewage, or a constrain ...l goals. Mandate advocates argue that state or local governments would not on their own provide sufficient resources or protections for national prioriti
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  • On the other hand, several of the grants of power to Congress were elastic, as ...ment Act of 1938. Farmer Filburn had to pay a penalty of 49 cents a bushel on the 239 bushels that exceeded his acreage allotment.
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  • ...mission on Intergovernmental Relations]] (1994-1996) and chaired the Panel on Research and Development Priorities for the U.S. Census Bureau’s State an ...ograms. Nathan’s extensive writings about federalism Nathan drew heavily on these findings. His timely, longitudinal, flexible field-network evaluation
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