Yasmin Hassan DUE WEEK OF SEPT 22. POLSC 110 Prof. Newton FEDERALISM Logic of American Politics: “Federalism” 1. Explain the Supreme Court’s decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden and what these decisions would mean for federal-state relations. How would these early cases enable an expanded role for the national government years after these cases were heard? In the McCulloch v. Maryland case, Congress stated how Maryland did not have the right nor the power to tax the second bank created, and Marylands tax was unconstitutional. Congress gained a little more power concerning States rights. In the Gibbons v. Ogden case widened the horizons for Congress and gave them more power. This case gave Congress the ability to control …show more content…
The New Deal was meant to help after the negative impacts of the Great Depression, so that more people could get jobs and go back to their normal living. The National government would be funding programs that the States would initiate and run, making national powers important due to the positive impact of the funding that States …show more content…
George Wallace In this relatively short speech, Gov. Wallace in 1963 makes a clear case that the federal government is overreaching in its constitutionally defined powers. Explain his reasoning, and how it is that he finds support in the Constitution for his position as a guardian of states’ rights. Gov. George Wallace in his 1963 speech spoke of how the rights of his state were intruded on and broken due to the fact that integration of blacks into his all white school was occurring by force. Gov. Wallace referred back to the constitution by stating that the Congress was in charge of making laws, and that no one else had any type of right to force anything onto the states without the approval of Congress, which was not given. He also spoke of how though there are governments and government systems, the power is in the hands of the people and that the States were given a ton of other powers that were to be handled by only the States and no one else. He referred to the tenth amendment of the Constitution which proved exactly