POL SCI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Supremacy Clause, Transaction Cost, Party System
14 Apr 2016
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When someone is impeached, public opinion and political power goes down. Gives power to both states and national gov"t. Confederacy has high transaction cost, unitary form of gov has higher conformity costs. Elastic clause: necessary and proper--right for natl gov to enact a law that they think is necessary and/or proper to carry out laws. Supremacy clause: if there are laws between federal and state, then federal"s is supreme. Block grants- govt gives states a block of money with flexibility. Matching grant - they match some type of funding with how much you spend. Federal gov has acted coercively with these by using them against states (we will take away your grants if you don"t enact a certain act {raise drinking age to. Electoral college: 538 votes to determine who prez is. I don"t think that it is representative because you have that chance that it won"t be the same as what people want.
