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History, Govt: Federalism and Federal Mandates: Home

Mr. Ray Balch

AP Government Textbook

Chapter 3 covers FEDERALISM!!! 

READ IT!! 

Guidelines: Paper

MLA Guidelines: typed, double-spaced, heading

Works Cited/Bibliography including website (Not included in page count) - Use NoodleTools. 

5-12 pages

Two Grades: Content, Mechanics

Notes

The New Deal: President FDR

The Fair Deal: President Truman

The Great Sociey: President LBJ

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Questions to answer: Federalism/Federal Mandates

Federalism

  • ANALYZE whether Federalism, over the last sixty years, has changed due to the increase in Federal mandates on state and local governments. 
  • Did the New Deal, the Fair Deal and the Great Society programs once and for all establish national dominance?
  • Did the Nixon, Reagan, H.W. Bush administrations succeed in their quest for a "New Federalism" that would return responsibilities and powers to the states?
  • Is there any impact of the G.W. Bush and Obama administrations?  
  • ASSESS the impact of increased Federal mandates on Federalism. 
  • DISCUSS the broad issue of national vs. state power and politics
  • Given the historical facts that many states have adopted and are continuing to adopt very discriminatory laws, should James Madison's idea of a "federal negative" be given serious thought? 

Choose a Federal Mandate

  • DISCUSS the objectives of the Federal Government in enacting the mandate
  • DISCUSS the impact on state and local government budget priorities as a result of this mandate. 
  • DISCUSS the potential consequences of the removal of your mandate. 

Databases

Facts On File: American History Online

Look up: Unfunded mandates 

Gale: U.S. HIstory in Context

Use these to look up information for: 

  • The New Deal
  • The Fair Deal
  • The Great Society

Federalism????

The word FEDERALISM is NOT mentioned in the constitution. 

Federal mandates are laws passed by Congress and signed by the president requiring compliance by the states under threat of legal action, sanctions or other punitive measures, and these laws override any state laws to the contrary.

FUNDED and UNFUNDED mandates

Federal Mandates - Examples

Examples: The Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Labor Standards Act, The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

 

No Child Left Behind: Education Next 

Intergovernmental Mandates in Federal Legislation

According to the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995, federal mandates include requirements imposed on state, local, or tribal governments or on entities in the private sector that are not conditions of aid or tied to participation in voluntary federal programs. CBO identifies such mandates in bills that are approved by authorizing committees (and, when requested, for other legislation) and provides an estimate of the costs associated with the mandates.

Mandates