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- 1Cooperative/Marble cake federalisma flexible relationship between the federal and state governments in which both work together on a variety of issues and programs.
- 2Laboratories of Democracyare sometimes called "laboratories of democracy" because they can experiment with innovative policy ideas. This allows other states and the nation as a whole to see if the new ideas work or not before they adopt them.
- 3Equal protection lawNo State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
- 4Privileges and immunity clausethe Constitution states that "the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several states." This clause protects fundamental rights of individual citizens and restrains state efforts to discriminate
- 5Supremacy clauseIt establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
- 6Dual/Layer cake federalismis a political arrangement in which power is divided between the federal and state governments in clearly defined terms, with state governments exercising those powers accorded to them without interference from the federal government.
- 7States rightsthe rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.
- 8McCulloch v. Marylandhe Supreme Court held that Congress has implied powers derived from those listed in Article I, Section 8. The “Necessary and Proper” Clause gave Congress the power to establish a national bank.
- 9Due process clause“due process of law” before the government may deprive someone of “life, liberty, or property.” In other words, the Clause does not prohibit the government from depriving someone of “substantive” rights such as life, liberty, or property; it simply requires that the government follow
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