The federal government’s “enumerated powers” are listed in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. Among other things, they include: the power to levy taxes, regulate commerce, create federal courts (underneath the Supreme Court), set up and maintain a military, and declare war.

Name two responsibilities of the federal government.

• National defence and firefighting.
• National defence and foreign policy.
• Citizenship and highways.
• Recycling and education.

1. Delegated (sometimes called enumerated or expressed) powers are specifically granted to the federal government in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. This includes the power to coin money, to regulate commerce, to declare war, to raise and maintain armed forces, and to establish a Post Office.

So long as their laws do not contradict national laws, state governments can prescribe policies on commerce, taxation, healthcare, education, and many other issues within their state. Notably, both the states and the federal government have the power to tax, make and enforce laws, charter banks, and borrow money.

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• Protect. …
• Keep Order. …
• Help Citizens. …
• Make Laws. …

It provides a social security that enables citizens to create their own economic security. The future of government builds on these foundations of protecting and providing. Government will continue to provide public goods, at a level necessary to ensure a globally competitive economy and a well-functioning society.

Government and politics provide a mechanism for determining how to divide resources and resolve other conflicts. This allows society to resolve conflict with less reliance on killing.

The government is responsible for helping to resolve conflicts or differences.

States have the legal obligation to protect and promote human rights, including the right to social security, and ensure that people can realize their rights without discrimination.

Federalism, mode of political organization that unites separate states or other polities within an overarching political system in a way that allows each to maintain its own integrity. …

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• Dual Federalism. Giving limited list of powers primary foreign policy and national defense to the national government.
• Cooperative Federalism.
• Marble Cake Federalism.
• Competitive Federalism.
• Permissive Federalism.
• The “New” Federalism.

Dual federalism describes the nature of federalism for the first 150 years of the American republic, roughly 1789 through World War II. The Constitution outlined provisions for two types of government in the United States, national and state.

The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration to the states of some of the autonomy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

• Cooperative Federalism (1930s – 1960s)
• Creative Federalism (1960s)
• Competitive Federalism (1970s –1980s)

Also, general revenue sharing provided money to local governments and counties with no strings attached. One of the ways New Federalism allowed states to have more power was by cutting the power of the federal government.

What is one of the biggest problems with federal block grants? There is a need for greater accountability in how the funds are actually spent by the states.

Dual federalism has been nicknamed ‘layer-cake federalism’, since it imagines an obvious separation between state and federal duties.

REGULATORY FEDERALISM (“THE STICK”) One way for Congress to pass mandates is to impose regulations and standards on state and local governments. • In the past, Congress has forced state governments to meet certain federal guidelines. This is known as regulatory federalism.