Dual Federalism Vs Cooperative Government

Philosophy of Federalism

Federalism was created to divide power, many believed that if one person or one group obtain power it would lead to tyranny. With such said, federalism divided government into two branches, between national government and state government. There are two theories of federalism; dual federalism and cooperative federalism. Dual federalism is a coequal sovereign between the national and state governments. Hierarchical federalism believes national government is supreme. Cooperative federalism is an influence between state and national government. The constitution was what defined the government's power.

Dual federalism also known as divided sovereignty, was an agreement which divided the power between federal and state governments which referred to whichever decision the state government would exercise there wouldn’t be any interference from the part of the federal government. Dual federalism was used in the 1789 all the way to World War II. Dual federalism lasted until 1937 when Franklin Roosevelt was in the white house. The great Depression elevated commerce and created an overlap within the powers of the federal and state government. To regulate the economy, the federal government passed national policies also known as the commerce clause. In addition this led to both governments working together which cause the end of

dual federalism and created cooperative federalism.
Cooperative federalism began in the early 30’s and only lasted until the 70’s.

The concept cooperative federalism carried that state and local governments cooperated into solving common problems instead of creating separate policies similar to dual federalism. The nation's needs were in the hands of both governments and miscommunication could not be tolerated. Since the economic situation in the United States was awful, the nation decided to end cooperative federalism, and moved to a different form of federalism, since they needed a government in which they could truly trust and had the ability to fix the economic

crisis.
The most recent federalism was created by the Obama administration which is known as progressive federalism. The purpose of progressive federalism was the states to have control over issues that national government reserves. This strategy is used for different scenarios, for example the regulations on of the greenhouse gases. This allows states to examine variant government mandates which can create effective changes and can inform what discoveries they have created with their involvement.
Conclusion, Federalism impacted and fixed the American government. Federalism represents a vertical division of power. (J. Feldmeier p. 53) It is known that federalism is an important concept in the U.S. constitution. Sharing powers between national and state governments is what lead to the creation of Federalism.