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Politics of the United States
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- views government as a means to better society and promotes general welfare
- views politics as a positive activity and a worthy endeavor
- An admniistrative group of nonelected officials who carry out policies and programs
- Case that said Federalism was still in effect and that the states were all still sovereign and equal after the civil war
- national government viewed as leader for the states (present form of federalism)
- case that was an attempt to regain original federalism
- Says public policy should be crafted specifically to benefit the poor and marginalized
- greatest challenge to the notion of federalism
- community of people with a common sense of identity
- the invisible bond which ties nations together (the pattern of human activity)
- who wrote "American Federalism: a View from the States"?
- type of federalism in which national gov. used Federal Grants to coerce the State Gov.
- act that said all states need to change their drinking ag to 21 or they lose federal grants
- case that said the states couldn't secede from the Union
- article and section that said the government needs to guarantee republican form of government to states
- two equal sovereigns working together but separate from each other
- most influential justice who viewed himself as an American first and a Virginian second
- case that said Congress could establish a nation bank because it was "necessary and proper"
- Federalism article (gave the national and state obligations)
- thought behind the notion that government needs to create new states with an equal status to the other states