Federalism
- Created by: joshharwood96
- Created on: 20-03-15 13:00
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- Federalism
- A theory of government by which political power is divided between a national government and state governments, each having their own areas of substantive jurisdiction.
- How federalism has changed between state and federal government
- Westward expansion
- The growth of population
- Industrialisation
- Improvements in communication
- The Great Depression
- Before the Great Depression states had more power than the federal government
- However, with Roosevelt's New Deal the Federal Govt began to get more involved: building new school, roads and dams
- Bill Clinton 1996- Era of big government is over
- Foreign Policy
- Supreme Court decisions
- Constitutional amendments
- Federalism under Bush
- Federal Spending increased by 33% and a new Department of Homeland Security was created
- In education spending increased by 165%- no child left behind policy
- Major expansion of medicare with new prescription drug benefit estimated to have cost $400 billion
- Defense spending increased by 125% to 21% of the Federal govt's budget. $69 million funding for Homeland
- Nationalised two struggling mortgage firms
- $700 billion bail wall street for wall street
- Federalism under Obama
- Federal spending on states increased to 4.6% of GDP
- Money from federal govt accounted for 30% of states budgets in 2009
- $246 billion stimulus package in 2009 for roads, education and health care
- Introduction of Obama Care
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