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Dual Federalism Study Guide

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CHAPTER THREE JOURNAL QUESTIONS:

1. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A UNITARY AND A FEDERAL SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT?

The primary difference in these two models is their lines of power. In a unitary form of government, the central government has power over the state government, who in turn (and in a limited sense), then has power over the governed citizen. Here, the line of power follows a linear tier. Differing from this is a federal system of power, wherein central and state government share power, and each draw lines to the governed. Here lines of government follow lines of equal or similar powers wherein they disseminate.

2. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DUAL AND COOPERATIVE FEDERALISM?

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There is extreme significance in this decision as it, as many other supreme court decisions would, lay out the framework for how language in the constitution may, or may not be used.

7. IN AN EFFORT TO ALLOW MORE CITIZENS TO BE A PART OF THE POLICY-MAKING PROCESS, SOME STATES ALLOW FOR INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM, AND RECALL. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM?

Initiative as the name implies, is when voters may initiate policy via petition to eventually appear on the ballot in an election. On the other hand referendum, is when voters are allowed to reject a given policy, as long as that policy is one subject to referendum.
8. ARTICLE IV OF THE CONSTITUTION DEALS WITH RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STATES AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. ACCORDING TO ARTICLE IV, LIST ONE FEDERAL GUARANTEE TO THE STATES.

One guarantee of the Federal government to state governments is protection against invasion

9. WHILE MAKING A TRAFFIC STOP, AN ALABAMA POLICE OFFICER DISCOVERS A FUGITIVE WANTED FOR ROBBERY IN ARIZONA. DOES ALABAMA HAVE TO RETURN THE FUGITIVE TO ARIZONA? WHY? WHERE IN THE CONSTITUTION DID YOU FIND YOUR ANSWER?

Yes, in such a scenario the state is required to return the fugitive to Arizona by reason of article IV secontion II which reads that in such a scenario a fugitive “…be removed to the State having Jurisdiction over the Crime.”

10. ALABAMA’S LEGAL SYSTEM IS OVERWORKED. DOES THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE HAVE THE

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