Protecting people’s individual rights, such as freedom of religion and the right to a trial by a jury of peers, and the outlawing of slavery in the northwest territories were successes under the Articles of Confederation. In fact, the outlawing of slavery in those …show more content…
The federal government does not interfere with the states. It is as if the two governments are two layers of a cake that do not mix. An example of Dual Federalism that occurred in the United States is when monopolies were controlling the market. The state governments and central government were trying to deal with this issue separately. The states tried to regulate how much the workers worked, while the central government tried to regulate the output of the monopolies.
In Cooperative Federalism, the state governments and federal governments policy makers work together, or cooperate, to create policies across the levels of government. An example is when the Supreme Court ruled the National Labor Relations of 1935 were constitutional. This allowed Congress to regulate the manufacturing activities and labor-management relations in states. This type of government is like a marble cake where the two flavors mix together.
In Regulated Federalism, the government imposes legislation that states and localities must meet, using their own money to do so. An example is when Congress dramatically increased unfunded mandates, which forced the states to spend money to comply with federal