POLS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Conditionality, Supremacy Clause
31 May 2016
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A system of government in which power is divided between a central government and several regional governments. In the united states the division is between the national government and the states. Unitary authority is centralized with state and local government and authority is delegated from central government. Federation authority is divided between central and state or local governments. Confederation authority held by independent states and delegated to central government by consensus agreements. The same people and territory are included in both levels of government. The nation"s constitution protects units at each level of government from encroachment by the other units. Each unit is in a position to exert some leverage over the others. Shared means there are interlocking responsibilities that the local and federal government provides. National: money, taxes, interstate and foreign commerce, wage war. State: run elections, regulate intrastate commerce, local government.
