GOV 310L Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heredity, Classical Liberalism, Roman Calendar
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Chapter 3: federalism: key terms and court cases. Federalism: division of sovereignty between at least two different levels of government. Its own set of elected officials, own capacity to raise revenue by means of taxation and independent authority to pass laws regulating the lives of its citizens. Sovereignty: fundamental governmental authority: unitary system: system under which all authority is held by a single, national government. A state legislature can alter the boundaries of any local government, expand or narrow its power or abolish it altogether: unfunded mandates. Gave states independent authority, such as appointing militias (national guard). Fede(cid:396)al a(cid:374)d state (cid:862)fi(cid:374)al autho(cid:396)it(cid:455) o(cid:448)e(cid:396) thei(cid:396) o(cid:449)(cid:374) poli(cid:272)(cid:455) do(cid:373)ai(cid:374)s(cid:863) Tariff and slavery: calhoun, south carolina claimed states had power to nullify tariff law that harmed southern interests. After civil war states could not declare null and void decisions of federal government. Commerce clause: constitutional provision that gives congress po(cid:449)e(cid:396) to (cid:396)egulate (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)e(cid:396)(cid:272)e (cid:862)a(cid:373)o(cid:374)g the states(cid:863)
