Regulated Federalism

Federalism is the federal principle or the system of government. So in a federal system, power is shared between national governments and in state governments. The Constitution helps with splitting up the powers between the national governments and the state governments. Federalism is very important to have for our government because its shares powers throughout the world. Federalism started around the 1780’s. (Soronen, Lisa. “Federalism And The U.S. Supreme Court: Past, Present And Future.”) Dual Federalism is another type of Federalism which is also known as divided sovereignty. Sovereignty is the full power to be able to govern the government. It is arrangement for federal and state governments which power is divided equally to

The other definition of regulated federalism is a form of federalism in which Congress imposes legislations on the states and localities, requiring them to meet national standards. Regulated Federalism has been around since the 1960’s. (Soronen, Lisa. “Federalism And The U.S. Supreme Court: Past, Present And Future.”) New Federalism is a political philosophy of devolution, or the transfer of certain powers from the United States go back to the states. New federalism is what we are using in today’s world. (Soronen, Lisa. “Federalism And The U.S. Supreme Court: Past, Present And Future.”) New federalism is when powers are sent to the United States government then the powers are sent back to the states and it is like a continuous system.

Some examples for Federalism would be when the National Government said that they would not give the states the money from the major highways if they didn’t make the drinking age 21 years old. What ended up happening was that all the states agreed with the national government to make the law for drinking age 21. Another example for Federalism is the three branches of government. Which is the Judicial Branch, the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch. The Judicial branch is what involves criminal and civil courts. The Executive is the power that belongs to the President of the United States Government. And the last branch which is the Legislative branch is the United States Congress. All these branches make up the United States