Table of Contents

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A

About the Editors and the Contributors

Adamson v. California (1947)

Admission of New States

Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

Affirmative Action

Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)

Age Discrimination

Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

Alien and Sedition Acts

Amendment Process

Amendment Process

American Indians and Federalism

American Legion, et al. v. American Humanist Association, et al. (2019)

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)

American System

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

Annapolis Convention of 1786

Anti-Federalists

Arizona v. United States (2012)

Articles of Confederation

Articles of Confederation (full document)

B

Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)

Baker v. Carr (1962)

Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission (1978)

Barron v. Baltimore (1833)

Benton v. Maryland (1969)

Bingham, John A.

Brandeis, Louis D.

Brennan, William J., Jr.

Bronson v. Kinzie (1843)

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal (1973)

Burger, Warren Earl

Burgess, Michael

Bush v. Gore (2000)

C

Calhoun, John C.

Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)

Capital Punishment

Carter v. Carter Coal Company (1936)

Categorical Grants

Chamber of Commerce of the United States v. Whiting (2011)

Champion v. Ames (1903)

Charles River Bridge Company v. Warren Bridge Company (1837)

Chiafalo v. Washington (2020)

Chisholm v. Georgia (1793)

City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)

Civil Rights Act of 1875

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1965

Clark, Jane Perry

Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972

Coercive Federalism

Cohens v. Virginia (1821)

Cole v. Arkansas (1948)

Colegrove v. Green (1946)

Commerce among the States

Commerce Clause

Commerce with Foreign Nations

Commerce with the Indian Tribes

Common Core State Standards (inc. Race to the Top) (2009)

Community Development Block Grants

Compact Theory of the U.S. Constitution

Competitive Federalism

Comprehensive Employment and Training Act

Compromise of 1850

Concurrent Powers

Conditional Grants

Confederate States of America

Connecticut Compromise

Constitutional Convention of 1787

Constitutionalism

Continental Congress

Contract Clause

Contract with America

Cooley v. Board of Wardens (1852)

Cooperative Federalism

Corfield v. Coryell (1823)

Council of State Governments

Councils of Governments

County Government

Craig v. Boren (1976)

Creative Federalism

Criminal Justice

Crosby v. National Foreign Trade Council (2000)

Crosscutting Requirements

Crossover Sanctions

Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health (1990)

D

Darby Lumber Company v. United States (1941)

Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819)

De Jonge v. Oregon (1937)

Decentralization

Declaration of Independence

Dillon’s Rule

Direct Election of Senators

District of Columbia v. Heller

Diversity of Citizenship Jurisdiction

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022)

Dormant Commerce Clause

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Dual Citizenship

Dual Federalism

Duncan v. Louisiana (1968)

Dunn v. Blumstein (1972)

E

Economic Development

Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

Education Commission of the States

Edwards v. California (1941)

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Electoral College

Electric Industry Restructuring

Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

Eleventh Amendment

Enumerated Powers of the U.S. Constitution

Environmental Policy

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wyoming (1983)

Equal Protection of the Laws

Equal Rights Amendment

Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938)

Everson v. Board of Education (1947)

Exclusionary Rule

Exclusive Powers

Executive Branch Organizations

Executive Order

Executive Orders

Externalities/Spillovers

Extradition and Rendition

F

Federal-Local Relations

Federal-State Relations

Federalism Summit

Fifteenth Amendment

Fiscal Federalism

Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

Foreign Affairs and Federalism

Fourteenth Amendment

Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt (2019)

Frankfurter, Felix

Franklin, Benjamin

Fugitive Slave Acts

Fugitive Slave Provision: Article IV

Fugitive Slaves and American Federalism

Full Faith and Credit Clause: Article IV, Section 1

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

Furman v. Georgia (1972)

G

Gamble v. United States (2019)

Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority (1985)

Gender and Federalism

General Revenue Sharing

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Gitlow v. New York (1925)

Gonzales v. Oregon (2006)

Gonzales v. Raich (2005)

Governors and Federalism

Graves, W. Brooke

Gregg v. Georgia (1971)

Gregg v. Georgia (1976)

Griffin v. California

Griggs v. Duke Powers Company (1971)

Griswold v. Connecticut

Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

Grodzins, Morton M.

Guarantee Clause

H

Hamilton, Alexander

Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)

Harlan, John Marshall

Hartford Convention

Health Care Policy

Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)

Higher Education Act

Higher Education Compacts

Hines v. Davidowitz (1941)

Hipolite Egg Company v. United States (1911)

Holmes v. Walton (1780)

Home Building and Loan v. Blaisdell (1934)

Homeland Security

Homestead Act of 1862

Horizontal Federalism

I

Identity Politics in the Federal System

Implied Powers of the U.S. Constitution

Incorporation (Nationalization) of the Bill of Rights

Incorporation of the Bill of Rights

Interest Groups in the Federal System

Interest-Group System

Intergovernmental Lobbying

Intergovernmental Management

Intergovernmental Relations

Intergovernmental Tax Immunity

Interlocal Relations

Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act

Internal Improvements

International City/County Management Association

Interstate and Defense Highways Act

Interstate Commerce

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

Interstate Compacts

Interstate Relations

Interstate Renditions

J

Jackson, Andrew

Jefferson, Thomas

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Judiciary Act of 1789, Section 25

K

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

Katzenbach v. Morgan (1965)

Kelo v. City of New London (2005)

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions

Kestnbaum Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

King v. Burwell

Klopfer v. North Carolina (1967)

L

Law Enforcement

Layer Cake Federalism

Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Lincoln, Abraham

Livingston, William S.

Local Government

Lochner v. New York (1905)

Lopez v. United States

Louisiana Purchase

Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council (1992)

Luther v. Borden (1849)

M

Madison v. Alabama (2019)

Malloy v. Hogan

Malloy v. Hogan (1964)

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Marble Cake Federalism

Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee (1816)

Matching Requirements

McCarran-Ferguson Act

McCray v. United States (1904)

McCulloch v. Maryland

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

McDonald v. City of Chicago (2010)

McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020)

Metropolitan Planning Organizations

Michigan v. Long (1983)

Military Affairs

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Missouri Compromise of 1820

Missouri v. Holland (1920)

Morality Policy

Morrill Act of 1862

Mount Lemmon Fire District v. John Guido, et al. (2019)

Municipal Government

Municipal Securities / Municipal Bonds

Munn vs. Illinois

Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association (2018)

N

Nathan, Richard P.

National Association of Counties

National Association of Towns and Townships

National Conference of State Legislatures

National Defense and Interstate Highway Act of 1956

National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519 (2012)

National Governors’ Association

National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933

National Labor Relations Act of 1935

National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation (1937)

National League of Cities

National League of Cities v. Usery (1976)

National Security

Nationalization of the Bill of Rights

Native American Sovereignty

Native Americans

Near v. Minnesota (1931)

Necessary and Proper Clause

New Federalism (Nixon)

New Federalism (Reagan)

New Jersey Plan

New Judicial Federalism

New Partnership Federalism

New State Ice Company v. Liebmann (1932)

New York v. United States (1992)

Nixon, Richard M.

No Child Left Behind Act

Nollan v. California Coastal Commission (1987)

Noncentralization

North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission (2015)

Northwest Ordinance

Northwest Ordinance of 1784

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

O

O’Connor, Sandra Day

Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

Original Jurisdiction of Supreme Court

P

Palko v. Connecticut (1937)

Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton (2019)

Parker v. Gladden (1966)

Pass through Requirements

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Pennsylvania v. Nelson (1956)

Perez v. United States (1971)

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996

Picket Fence Federalism

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Pointer v. Texas (1965)

Policy Diffusion

Political Culture

Political Parties

President of the United States

Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842)

Printz v. United States (1997)

Privileges and Immunities Clause: Article IV

Privileges and Immunities Clause: Fourteenth Amendment

Public Administration

Public Interest Groups

Public Officials’ Associations

Public Officials’ Organizations

R

Racial Discrimination

Reapportionment

Reed v. Reed (1971)

Regional Higher Education Compacts

Rehnquist, William

Report on Manufactures

Republican Guarantee Clause

Reserved Powers

Revenue Sharing

Review of Federalism in America

Reynolds v. Sims (1964)

Riker, William H.

Robinson v. California (1962)

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rucho et al. v. Common Cause et al. (2019)

S

Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974

Scalia, Antonin

Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)

Schilb v. Kuebel (1971)

School Districts

Second Amendment

Self-government and Federalism

Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida (1996)

Seventeenth Amendment

Sex Discrimination

Shapiro v. Thompson (1969)

Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)

Shreveport Rate Case

Sixteenth Amendment

Slaughterhouse Cases

Social Security Act of 1935

South Carolina v. Baker (1988)

South Dakota v. Dole (1987)

South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (2018)

Southern Railway Company v. Reid (1912)

Sovereign Immunity

Special Districts

State Constitutional Law

State Constitutional Rights Federalism

State Constitutions

State criminal proceedings

State Government

State Legislatures

State-Local Relations

States’ Rights

Stone v. Mississippi (1880)

Stream of Commerce

Substantive Due Process

Supremacy Clause: Article VI, Clause 2

Supreme Court of the United States

T

Taft-Hartley Act

Takings Clause: Fifth Amendment

Taney, Roger Brooke

Tax Competition

Tax Coordination

Taxing and Spending Power

Telecommunications

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Act

Tenth Amendment

Texas v. White (1869)

The Federalist Papers

Thomas, Clarence

Three-fifths Compromise

Timbs v. Indiana (2019)

Toomer v. Witsell (1948)

Transportation Equity Act for the Twenty-first Century

Transportation Policy

U

U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations

U.S. Conference of Mayors

U.S. Constitution

U.S. Constitution (full document)

U.S. Controlled Substances Act

U.S. Territories

Unfunded Mandates

United States Term Limits v. Thornton (1995)

United States Trust Company v. New Jersey (1977)

United States v. Butler (1936)

United States v. Cooley (2021)

United States v. E. C. Knight Company (1895)

United States v. Lopez (1995)

United States v. Morrison (2002)

United States v. Printz

United States v. Windsor (2013)

USA PATRIOT Act of 2001

V

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Virginia v. Tennessee (1893)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

W

Walker v. Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans (2015)

Wallace, George C.

Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)

Washington v. Texas (1967)

Watts, Ronald L.

Webster-Hayne Debate

Webster, Daniel

West Coast Hotel Company v. Parrish (1937)

Wheare, Kenneth Clinton

White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs

Wickard v. Filburn (1942)

Wilson, Woodrow

Wolf v. Colorado (1949)

Y

Younger v. Harris (1971)

Z

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