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ILLUSTRATION: DAVID POHL. Federalism, Now More Than Ever. By Kaytlin Roholt Lane L’14, GR’14. As ideological polarization deepens and civic discourse continues to degrade, there is a growing sense in America today that something in our political system is broken.
- American Federalism: Prerevolutionary Underpinnings
- The Civil War and Reconstruction
- Progressive Era: Federalism Grows
- Incorporating The Bill of Rights
- Expanding Federal Power: The New Deal
- Federalism Today
Reflecting on America’s early political development, Alexis de Tocqueville commented that “[i]n America . . . it may be said that the township was organized before the county, the county before the state, the state before the union.”1America’s earliest political associations were forged at a local level. Early colonists found themselves separated f...
Civil War: Federalism in Crisis
The Civil War threatened the survival of the American experiment. Could states legitimately claim a right to secede from the nation? President Lincoln vehemently opposed the idea. “Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.”52There was the bond of geography: “Physically speaking, we cannot separate.”53 And there was the bond of the constitution itself: “[N]o State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union.”54 Secessionists strongly disagreed. Future...
Post Civil War: Reconstructing Federalism
When the Civil War ended, the country entered “Reconstruction,” a period that included rebuilding the roles of the federal and state governments. There was significant disagreement in the country about how to treat the former Confederate states, implicating whether the basic relationship between the federal and state governments that existed before the War was to be restored, or whether it was necessary to make fundamental alternations in that relationship to prevent the continuation of the c...
Rapid industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries raised a variety of economic and social issues that in turn produced a series of political reforms. This period has been described as characterized by a “growing conviction that government at all levels ought to intervene in the socioeconomic order to enact antitrust and r...
The Reconstruction Amendments profoundly impacted the federal-state balance by applying the Bill of Rights through the Fourteenth Amendment (“incorporating” the Bill of Rights in the Fourteenth Amendment) to limit or invalidate state action. Before the Civil War, the Supreme Court held that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states. In 1833 th...
After his election in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a series of economic and regulatory programs to address the Great Depression. Congress passed the National Industrial Recovery Act, authorizing the promulgation of fair competition codes. The Roosevelt administration adopted a series of these codes, including one governing the poult...
How America interprets the balance of federal and state power has changed over two hundred years. Those changes reflect, and helped us survive, challenges that almost destroyed the nation. How best to strike that balance continues to pervade critical aspects of modern American government, including healthcare, race, civil liberties, the environment...
23 de sept. de 2022 · Yet in recent years, federalism has entered a new phase. In my Brookings Institution Press book, Power Politics: Trump and the Assault on American Democracy, I argue the extreme polarization and ...
14 de jun. de 2023 · Article. American federalism in 2022–2023 saw a continued escalation of the culture wars, with persistent battles fought between the heavily polarized political parties, different levels of government (including federal versus state governments and state versus local governments), and between states and private business.
Federalism is a form of political organization that seeks to distinguish states and unites them, assigning different types of decision-making power at different levels to allow a degree of political independence in an overarching structure.
24 de sept. de 2019 · The Future of Federalism in America. Even as polarization continues to drive an overall shift toward increased state power, majority political parties continue to contest state authority at the federal level.
24 de jul. de 2021 · In this introductory article for the 2020–2021 Annual Review of American Federalism, we review notable developments in U.S. politics and policy during the last year, with an emphasis on their intersections with and consequences for federalism.
