USA constituion
- Created by: Liv Scott
- Created on: 25-03-15 08:12
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- USA Constitution
- Principles
- Sovereign
- Representatvie goverment
- Seperation of powers
- Limited government
- Federalism
- Amendment
- Formal
- 2/3 of each house
- 3/4 of states
- 22nd amentment
- National convention
- 2/3 states
- Never been successful
- About 7yrs
- 2/3 of each house
- Informal
- Supreme court interpriation
- e.g. Roe V Wade 1973
- Convention
- e.g. EXOP & the cabinet
- Supreme court interpriation
- Few amendments because...
- Deliberately difficult to amend
- Constitution is Vague & Specific
- Revered
- Supreme Court interprets it
- Formal
- Strengths
- Constitution is soverign
- Major principles entrenched
- Separation of powers, Checks & balances
- Protects individual liberties
- Flexible
- Safeguarded by Supreme Court
- Revered by citizens
- Criticisms
- Invitation to strugle
- Leads to gridlock
- "The opposite of progress is Congress"
- Leads to weak govn't
- Difficult to amend
- Unelected judges have too much power
- Presidential power not always constrained
- Federalism
- Implied but not mentioned in constitution
- A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and constituent political units
- Growing of federal govn't due to...
- Growing poputlation
- Industrialisation
- New Deal
- Constitutional Amendments
- e.g. 16th
- Supreme Court decision
- Improvements in communication
- Foreign policy post WW2
- Dual Federalism
- Cooperative federalism
- Creative Federalism
- New Federalism
- Assertive federalism?
- New phase emerging?
- Clinton
- Foreign & Economic policy
- G.W. Bush
- Homeland security/Partiot act & No child left behind
- Obama
- Obamacare & executive orders e.g. fast track illegal immigrents
- 1970s-Present
- Regan & Nixon onwards
- "On your own federalism"
- Fed govn't too big
- Roll back the frontiers of the state
- Assertive federalism?
- Late 60s & 70s
- "Picket fence federalism"
- Money given for specific things
- Housing, transport, affirmative action
- New Federalism
- "Marble cake"
- 1930s-60s
- Federal govn't fund states under new deal
- To tackle poverty, health & education
- Creative Federalism
- "Layer cake"
- 1787-1930s
- Rights of states protected
- Cooperative federalism
- Principles
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