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  2. Federalism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Dual federalism had a significant impact on social issues in the United States. Dred Scott v. Sanford was an example of how Taney's dual federalism helped stir up tensions eventually leading to the outbreak of the Civil War. Another example of dual federalism's social impact was in the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling. Dual federalism had set up that ...

  3. List of countries by federal system - Wikipedia

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    Federalism in the Kingdom of Belgium is an evolving system. Belgian federalism is a twin system which reflects both the linguistic communities of the country, French (ca. 40% of the total population), Dutch (ca. 59%), and to a much lesser extent German (ca. 1%) and the

  4. Federalism - Wikipedia

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    Federalism is a mode of government that combines a general level of government (a central or federal government) with a regional level of sub-unit governments (e.g., provinces, states, cantons, territories, etc.), while dividing the powers of governing between the two levels of governments.

  5. Laboratories of democracy - Wikipedia

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    Louis Brandeis praised federalism as allowing states to experiment and make the best laws.. Laboratories of democracy is a phrase popularized by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann to describe how "a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the ...

  6. List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Warren Court

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    upholding conviction for refusing to answer questions before the House Un-American Activities Committee against First Amendment challenge Smith v. California: 361 U.S. 147 (1959) sale of obscene books Bates v. City of Little Rock: 361 U.S. 516 (1960) First Amendment, compelled disclosure of membership lists United States v. Raines: 362 U.S. 17 ...

  7. Federal question jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    Article III of the United States Constitution permits federal courts to hear such cases, so long as the United States Congress passes a statute to that effect. However, when Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, which authorized the newly created federal courts to hear such cases, it initially chose not to allow the lower federal courts to possess federal question jurisdiction for fear ...

  8. New Federalism - Wikipedia

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    New Federalism is a political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States federal government back to the states.The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration of some of the autonomy and power, which individual states had lost to the federal government as a result of ...

  9. Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution extends the right to participate in presidential elections to the District of Columbia.The amendment grants to the district electors in the Electoral College, as though it were a state, though the district can never have more electors than the least-populous state.