PSCI-1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Concurrent Powers, Federalism In The United States
24 Jan 2017
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Horizontal federalism: relationship across state governments - specifically discussing the issue of marriage equality. (full faith and credit) American political system rests on stability of policy. American government is not as responsive to public demand due to the structure of the. We have policy predictability but it is hard to create new policies. Advantage to people who want to stop policy change. America has a federal system of government. Federal system: a constitution divides governmental powers between the central and national govts and the constituent govts (the states) and giving substantial powers to each. Range of federal systems - in some the national govt has more power, in others, the state govts have more power. The distributions of power cannot be altered by legislations! The national govt cannot simply pass a law to take away powers from state govts. This doesn"t mean that laws can"t be interpreted differently. Both states and natl govts have power to rule over individuals.
