USA Law

Tag: Federalism

  • Sovereignty

    Sovereignty in the United States Sovereignty Definition The union and exercise of all human power possessed in a state. It is a combination of all power; it is the power to do everything in a state without accountability, to make laws, to execute and to apply them, to impose and collect […]

  • Sovereignty

    Sovereignty in the United States Sovereignty Definition The union and exercise of all human power possessed in a state. It is a combination of all power; it is the power to do everything in a state without accountability, to make laws, to execute and to apply them, to impose and collect […]

  • Majoritarianism

    Majoritarianism in the United States Concept of Majoritarianism In the U.S., in the context of the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Majoritarianism has the following meaning: The concept that the preferences of a majority in a group (such as a nation) should prevail in the decision-making […]

  • Majoritarianism

    Majoritarianism in the United States Concept of Majoritarianism In the U.S., in the context of the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Majoritarianism has the following meaning: The concept that the preferences of a majority in a group (such as a nation) should prevail in the decision-making […]

  • States Rights

    States Rights in the United States States` Rights Introduction to States Rights States’ Rights, in United States history, political doctrine advocating the strict limitation of the prerogatives of the federal government to those powers explicitly assigned to it in the Constitution of the […]

  • Constitutionalism

    Constitutionalism in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled CONSTITUTIONALISMConstitutionalism is a term not altogether congenial to American lawyers. It seems to share the characteristics of other […]

  • Constitutionalism

    Constitutionalism in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled CONSTITUTIONALISMConstitutionalism is a term not altogether congenial to American lawyers. It seems to share the characteristics of other […]

  • Madisonianism

    Madisonianism in the United States Concept of Madisonianism In the U.S., in the context of the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Madisonianism has the following meaning: James Madison’s constitutional structuring of the American political system to achieve limited government (and guard against […]

  • Block Grant

    Block Grant in the United States Concept of Block Grant In the U.S., in the context of the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Block Grant has the following meaning: A grant of federal money by Congress to a state or local government to fund a general block of programs, with states deciding many […]

  • Block Grant

    Block Grant in the United States Concept of Block Grant In the U.S., in the context of the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Block Grant has the following meaning: A grant of federal money by Congress to a state or local government to fund a general block of programs, with states deciding many […]

  • Elastic Clause

    Elastic Clause in the United States Concept of Elastic Clause In the U.S., in the context of the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Elastic Clause has the following meaning: The last clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to pass any laws necessary […]

  • Elastic Clause

    Elastic Clause in the United States Concept of Elastic Clause In the U.S., in the context of the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Elastic Clause has the following meaning: The last clause in Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, giving Congress the power to pass any laws necessary […]

  • Federalism

    Federalism in the United States In The Federalist Papers The first and most obvious approach The Federalist Papers used was a new definition of federalism. Having just won a revolution against an oppressive monarchy, the former American colonists were in no mood to replace it with another […]

  • Federalism

    Federalism in the United States In The Federalist Papers The first and most obvious approach The Federalist Papers used was a new definition of federalism. Having just won a revolution against an oppressive monarchy, the former American colonists were in no mood to replace it with another […]

  • Marble Cake Federalism

    Marble Cake Federalism in the United States Concept of Marble Cake Federalism In the U.S., in the context of the U.S. Constitution and Federalism, Marble Cake Federalism has the following meaning: Mixing of powers, resources, and programs between and among the national, state, and local […]