American Politics Today - Essentials (3rd Ed)

FEDERALISM TODAY| 71 during Ronald Reagan’s presidency in the 1980s. In his inaugural address, Reagan emphasized, “All of us ne ...

72 CHAPTER 3|FEDERALISM Reform Act of 1995, made it more diffi cult for Congress to impose unfunded mandates on the states. Th ...

FEDERALISM TODAY| 73 For  example, under the 1965 Voting Rights Act federal marshals were sent to the South to ensure that Afri ...

74 CHAPTER 3|FEDERALISM THE STATES FIGHT BACK Most Americans support the national policies that have been imposed on the state ...

FEDERALISM TODAY| 75 purposes). Many of the state laws mentioned in this discussion will not stand up in federal court, but the ...

76 CHAPTER 3|FEDERALISM Congress’s reach. One technique has been to require that Congress provide an unambiguous statement of ...

FEDERALISM TODAY| 77 THE COMMERCE CLAUSE Another category of cases leading to more state power concerns the commerce clause of ...

78 CHAPTER 3|FEDERALISM Congress could have demonstrated the point by showing that (1) most guns are made in one state and sol ...

FEDERALISM TODAY| 79 limited Congress’s power under the commerce clause, Congress still may induce states to act according to i ...

80 CHAPTER 3|FEDERALISM Second, government that is closer to the people encourages participation in the political process. Loc ...

LAST OCCURRING A HEAD| FEDERALISM TODAY|^8181 MEDICAL MARIJUANA AND ASSISTED SUICIDE The debate over devolving power from the ...

82 CHAPTER 3|FEDERALISM Third, our federalist system provides more potential paths to address problems. For example, the court ...

CONCLUSION| 83 that are intractable at the local or state level. For example, pollution spills across state lines, and the dete ...

84 CHAPTER 3|FEDERALISM Powerful interest groups have an incentive to claim national impor- tance for their causes to increase ...

STUDY GUIDE|^85 STUDY GUIDE PRACTICE ONLINE with WWNORTON.COM/STUDYSPACE Diagnostic Quiz & Key Term Flashcards for This Cha ...

86 CHAPTER 3|FEDERALISM FEDERALISM TODAY E Describe the major trends and debates in federalism today. Pages 68–83 SUMMARY Toda ...

STUDY GUIDE|^87 d) federal mandate e) tax refund Ronald Reagan’s eff orts to increase states’ rights led to an increase in ___ ...

Civil Liberties 88 4 ...

89 SHOULD FREE SPEECH be protected even when the ideas are offensive? The Supreme Court ruled that the Westboro Baptist Church h ...

90 CHAPTER 4|CIVIL LIBERTIES When the WBC protested at the funeral of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder, his father, Albert ...