POLI 172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Federalist No. 39, Cooperative Federalism, Federalism In The United States
16 Feb 2016
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Victory of the union over secessionist states in the civil war (1861-1865) established. National government has grown: conflation of federal with national, cooperation and conflict in the workings of federalism. No federalist systems before the united states was created. Tendency to associate democracy with federalism, but not necessarily the case. Federalism: system in which power is constitutionally divided between a central government and sub national or local governments. Egypt and china are examples of authoritarian unitary systems. By 1960"s, as much as half of the world"s territory was governed by federalism: useful for uniting diverse states or territories into a single country, iraq in 2005, sometimes power-sharing does not work. Founders did not choose federalism as an ideal form of government or an ideal principle. Rather accommodated political reality: dual form of government; hybrid that mixed national form with confederal form, madison: partly national; partly federal. Motivations behind support and lack thereof for the constitutions primarily due to fear.
