In Gamble v. United States (2019), the Supreme Court confirmed its prior support for the dual-sovereignty doctrine, ruling that the Double Jeopardy Clause of…
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was the first written constitution in the American colonies. In 1639, the three towns that comprised the Connecticut colony,…
Article IV, Section 1, of the Constitution provides, “Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and…
Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3, the so-called Fugitive Slave Clause, provides, “No person held to Service or Labour in one state, under the…
From the Constitutional Convention of 1787 until the end of the Civil War, slavery undermined American federalism and challenged the very possibility of harmony…
In Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt (2019), the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that a state’s sovereign immunity protects a…
Article IV, Section 3, of the Constitution empowers Congress “to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other…
Special districts are units of government that have elected or appointed officials and public accountability to other units of government normally within a narrowly…
The problem of water pollution became a public concern in 1969, when the polluted Cuyahoga River, flowing through Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire. The Safe…
In Article IV, Section 4, the Constitution declares that “[t]he United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of…
Externalities are uncompensated third-party effects resulting from the production and/or consumption of goods and services. In other words, an externality results from the gap…
President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs (IGA) in 1955 upon recommendation from the Kestnbaum Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.…
The executive branch is organized around the principal of delivering governmental services that have been assigned to the executive either by the federal or…
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