The Cities and the Federal System
Author: Roscoe Coleman Martin
Publisher: New York : Atherton Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 216
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Publisher: New York : Atherton Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roscoe Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1351300423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The emergence of America as a metropolitan-urban society has had profound consequences for every phase of national life, but nowhere has its effects been greater than in the domain of government. The growth of the city and its evolution into the metro-city has led to problems more complex and intense than any previously known. These problems command the concern and resources of all governments, federal as well as state and local; for as they have gained general attention they have emerged as national problems. Coincident with national involvement in problems once held to be local has come a rise in federal government relations with the cities. Such relations, though in fact of long standing, have increased greatly in number and intensity since 1933. The result is a significant expansion in the practice of federalism, one marked by the emergence of the cities as partners in the federal system. Urbanization in a Federalist Context treats the expanded federal partnership in urban growth and argues that it is not a fact to be welcomed. Martin traces the expansion of federal authority in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. He shows how local issues become national issues, and also how national authority expands, affecting all aspects of location government. The developments he explores reflect a federal system in the process of constant but evolutionary growth. Martin reveals why the relationship between the federal system and metro-cities is a flexible arrangement, capable of adjusting to new demands-but not without its own risks. This classic will be of continuing interest to those concerned about the consequences of the expansion of government authority in the United States.
Author: United States. President's Task Force on Model Cities
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark I. Gelfand
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines the struggle waged by big city politicians and other urban interest groups to open the door for a federal-city relationship fromt he first breakthrough during the New Deal through the establishment of a Cabinet level department of Urban Affairs during the Johnson Administration.
Author: Enid Slack
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2009-11-21
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 0773576177
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using capital cities in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ethiopia, Germany, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States as case studies, contributors examine federal policies towards capital cities, with a particular emphasis on how capital cities are funded and governed, and the extent to which the federal government compensates them for their unique role.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1985-02-01
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0309035910
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the United States' founding fathers set up a federal system of government, they asked a question that has never been satisfactorily settled: How much governmental authority belongs to the states, and how much to the national government? In an atmosphere of changing priorities and power bases, the Committee on National Urban Policy convened a symposium to address this division. The symposium examined the "New Federalism" as it relates to the Supreme Court, urban development, taxpayers, job training, and related topics. "Throughout the symposium the future evolution of the American federal system was debated," says the book's summary. "Yet whatever new idea or theory emerges, it is likely to continue to include the inevitable conflict between the allegiance to a national government and the respect for state and local loyalties."
Author: Mark J. Rozell
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 0190900059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Early Americans were suspicious of centralized authority and executive power. Casting away the yoke of England and its king, the founding fathers shared in this distrust as they set out to pen the Constitution. Weighing a need for consolidated leadership with a demand for states' rights, they established a large federal republic with limited dominion over the states, leaving most of the governing responsibility with the former colonies. With this dual system of federalism, the national government held the powers of war, taxation, and commerce, and the ability to pass the laws necessary to uphold these functions. Although the federal role has grown substantially since then, states and local governments continue to perform most of the duties in civil and criminal law, business and professional licensing, the management of infrastructure and public services: roads, schools, libraries, sanitation, land use and development, and etc. Despite the critical roles of state and local governments, there is little awareness-or understanding-of the nature and operations of the federal system. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise overview of federalism, from its origins and evolution to the key events and constitutional decisions that have defined its framework. Although the primary focus is on the United States, other federal systems, including Brazil, Canada, India, Germany, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, and the EU, are addressed.
Author: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
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Published: 1974
Total Pages: 204
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