Slides

1. POL 205
Spring 2018

3. INSTRUCTIONS
With your copies of the U.S. Constitution,
complete the worksheet as a group.

5. Congress:
Legislate
President:
Execute
Judiciary:
Interpret

15.  Protects AgainstTyranny
 Dispersion and Diffusion of Power
 Increases Participation
 Improves Efficiency
 Ensures Policy Responsiveness / Innovation
 Reduces Conflict

16.  Creates Confusion & Reduces Accountability
 Increases Conflict
 “Not in My Backyard” (NIMBY)
 Impact on National Unity
 Creates Inequality
 Money, Economic Inequality, Law and Justice

23.  Known as “elastic clause”
 Grants Congress power to pass laws “which
shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the Foregoing powers”

25.  TenthAmendment
 What is the “police power?”
 Guarantee Clause (Article IV, Section 4)
 “The United States shall guarantee to every state in
this union a republican form of government…”

27.  Taxing
 Borrowing and
Spending Money
 Establishing Court
Systems
 Regulating Elections

30. NATIONALAUTHORITY
 “Writ of Habeas Corpus”
 Latin for “have you the body”
STATEAUTHORITY
 States cannot enter
treaties or alliances
 14th and 15th Amendments
to Constitution

32.  Supremacy Clause
 Article Six – Constitution is “Supreme Law”
 Full Faith and Credit Clause
 Civil Proceedings (Marriages, Divorces, etc.)
 Privileges & Immunities Clause
 Discrimination of Citizens

34. (1789-1933)

35.  “Layer-Cake”
 National and state
governments have
separate influence

37. ROGERTANEY DRED SCOTT

38. (1933-1964)

39.  “Marble-Cake”
 National and state
government work
together for Americans

40. The shift from dual to cooperative federalism occurred
due to federal govt. expanding its rule over time.

41. Federalism in the White House

42. Signing the Civil Rights Act
Categorical grants helped fund
LBJ’s “War on Poverty”

43. (1980-2002)

44.  Increase in devolution to states
 Categorical Grants
 Money given for specific purposes or categories
 Block Grants
 Money given for broad purposes
 Local areas decide how to spend money
 Reduced size and power of federal govt.