American Government: Stories of a Nation, Brief Edition
Video and Multimedia
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Audio
Audio 1: Decode DC: Learning to Love the F Word: Federalism
Description: The powers of federalism today.
Videos
Video 1. Constitutional Battle Ground State
Description: Host uses marijuana as an example of challenges of federalism.
Video 2. Pippa Norris “Electoral Integrity and Electoral Systems” 22 March 2016
Description: Analyzes why elections fail, including a lack of power-sharing like federalism.
Video 3. Federalism and the Constitution: The 17th Amendment
Description: Professor explores the history of federalism through the early 20th century.
Video 4. Plessy vs. Ferguson
Description: Analysis of the Plessy versus Ferguson decision.
News Clip 1. States Use Their Powers to Adjust Their Laws, Post-Ferguson
Description: States use their police powers to adjust their laws post-Ferguson.
News Clip 2. Attorney General Launches Federal Investigation into Police Practices
Description: Attorney General launches a federal investigation into local police practices.
News Clip 3. Regulators Force Coal Plants to Close Despite Local Government Opposition
Description: Federal regulators force coal plant to close despite local government opposition.
Web Links
Web Link 1. Watch the United States Grow
Web Link 2. Elastic Clause Cartoon
Description: Cartoon references Supreme Court’s Elastic (Necessary & Proper) Clause.
Web Link 3. Gas Cartoon
Description: Cartoon plays on how states’ right to choose speed limits has led to very different laws.
Web Link 4. Community Development Block Grant Program--CDBG
Description: Explanations of HUD block grants to exemplify cooperative federalism.