START PREP

4.1 FEDERALISM: THE DIVISION OF POWERPART I

TEXTBOOK PAGE 88

THEN START READING SECTION

NOTES BEGIN AT 09.35

AMERICAN GOVERNMENTMR. HOOD20 NOVEMBER 2013

4.1 FEDERALISM: THE DIVISION OF POWER

AMERICAN GOVERNMENTMR. HOOD`S NOTES20 NOVEMBER 2013

WHY IT MATTERS

THE FEDERAL SYSTEM DIVIDES GOVERNMENT POWER IN ORDER TO

PREVENT ITS ABUSE. THERE ARE TWO BASIC LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT IN THE FEDERAL SYSTEM – NATIONAL AND STATE. THE SUPREME COURT SETTLES DISPUTES BETWEEN THE

TWO.

FRAMERS NEEDED STRONG NATIONAL

GOVERNMENT

FRAMERS WANTED TO

PRESERVE STRENGTH OF STATES

FRAMERS REJECTED BRITISH MODEL OF

GOVERNMENT

FRAMERS WERE DEDICATED TO LIMITED

GOVERNMENT

FRAMERS CHOSE FEDERALISM

OBJECTIVE 1DEFINE FEDERALISM AND EXPLAIN WHY FRAMERS CHOSE THIS SYSTEM OF

GOVERNMENT

THE US HAS NATIONAL LAWS

THE US HAS STATE LAWS

POWER DIVIDED BETWEEN NATIONAL + LOCAL

GOVERNMENTS

CONSITUTION DIVIDES POWERS

DUAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT

LOCAL ACTIONS OF LOCAL

CONCERN

NATIONAL ACTION IN

MATTERS OF WIDER CONCERN

EACH STATE MIGHT HAVE

DIFFERENT LAWS

BUT ALL STATES COME

TOGETHER DURING TIMES OF CRISIS

OBJECTIVE 2IDENTIFY POWERS

DELEGATED TO AND DENIED TO THE NATIONAL

GOVERNMENT, AND POWERS RESERVED FOR

AND DENIED TO THE STATES

POWERS OF THE NATIONAL

GOVERNMENT

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT HAS

POWERS GRANTED BY CONSITITUTION

NATIONAL GOVERNMENT DELEGATED

POWERS

1 - EXPRESSED POWERS

(SPELLED OUT)

2 - IMPLIED POWERS (REASONABLY

SUGGESTED)

3 - INHERENT (PRESUMED)

POWERS DENIED TO NATIONAL

GOVERNMENT

CERTAIN POWERS ARE DENIED

1 – EXPRESSED POWERS DENIED

(SPELLED OUT)

2 – DENIED BY CONSITUTION(ASSUMED BY

SILENCE)

3 – DENIED BY FEDERAL SYSTEM

ITSELF

POWERS RESERVED TO THE STATES

POWERS NOT EXPRESSED IN THE

CONSITITUTION

CONSTITUTION DOES NOT GIVE

POWERS TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

CONSTITUTION DOES NOT DENY

THESE POWERS TO THE STATE

INSTEAD THEY ARE RESERVED

POWERS

STATES CAN DECIDE FOR

THEMSELVES

MOST OF WHAT GOVERNMENT

DOES TODAY…

…IS DECIDED BY THE STATES

POWERS DENIED TO THE STATES

STATES ALSO DENIED

POWERS

DENIED BY CONSTITUTION IN SO

MANY WORDS

TO BE CONTINUED