Federalism and Public Policy

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Federalism and Public Policy
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State-side

• Direct Democracy
• Initiative, referendum, recall
• Nullification states declares null and void
  federal law they believe violates the
  Constitution
• Civil War - states cannot nullify federal law
• Obamacare referendums
• Dual federalism both national and state
  governments are supreme in their own spheres
• State Sovereignty - State can do what is not
  prohibited by the Constitution or preempted by
  federal policy
• States as laboratories of democracy
• Voting at 18 womens suffrage prohibition

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Trickle-down Politics

• Commerce Power
• Civil Rights Legislation
• Federal Aid
• Pre-emption (restraints and mandates)
• Nutrition labeling
• No Child Left Behind
• Due process

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Access to Government

• Bureaucracy
• Technocracy
• Differences between States
• Red and Blue States

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