Federalism

Federalism

The Constitutional Convention in 1787 created the basic idea of our American federal system by giving people a reason and a way to unite and form a basis for political union. Federalism was seen as a way to limit national power by giving states their own powers. Dual federalism used the Supreme Court to umpire between the national and state governments. When Franklin D Roosevelt responded to the Great Depression in 1937 with his New Deal we entered into Cooperative Federalism, The Supreme Court had upheld federal laws starting social welfare and public works programs giving the national government the power to give the state and local governments money for certain needs, like major highways, and them the power to administer spending. President Johnson called his government Creative Federalism when congress enacted the Great Society Legislation further expanding the role of the federal government. New Federalism was termed by President Nixon. This returned federal