Dual Federalism

By: Carly, Eleanor, and Alexis

State government

National Government

What is dual federalism?

-Co-equal sovereign powers

-The separation between the national and state governments

Supreme Court• The key to why state government has power• Hears the cases and decides whether it is a national or state issue• The Court interprets the commerce clause narrowly causing the Union to

have dual federalism – Preventing the national government from gaining to much power

The Nation

National Government

Thesis

After the Civil War, problems between state and national government emerged, causing the Supreme Court to be the deciding factor of which issues states could control and which the national government could control, also called duel federalism

Challenges the U.S. faced during the 19th and 20th century

• Civil War• United States v. E.C. Knight Company

– Commerce

• Hammer v. Dagenhart– Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

• Lochner v. New York– Forbidding bankers

Works Cited• Barbes, Barbara A, Mack C. Shelley II, and Steffen W. Schmidt. American Government and Politics Today: The

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• “Hammer v. Degenhart.” U.S. Supreme Court Media Oyez. 15 March 2009. The Oyez Project. 15 March 2009. <http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1917/1917_704/>.

• “Lochner v. New York.” U.S. Supreme Court Media Oyez. 15 March 2009. The Oyez Project. 15 March 2009. <http://www.oyez.org/cases/1901-1939/1904/1904_292/>.

• “United States v. E.C. Knight Co.” U.S. Supreme Court Media Oyez. 15 March 2009. The Oyez Project. 15 March 2009. <http://www.oyez.org/cases/1851-1900/1894/1894_675/>.