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Learning objective: 3.1 Explain the tension in American federalism between state and federal laws

Web Link 3.3: Gas Cartoon
Description: Cartoon plays on how states right to chose speed limits has led to very different laws

Audio Link 3.1: Decode DC: Learning to love the F word: Federalism
Description: The powers of Federalism today.

Learning objective: 3.2 Identify the elements of the United States Constitution that shape American federalism and evaluate arguments about the proper limits of congressional power under their authority

Web Link 3.2: Elastic Clause Cartoon
​Description: Cartoon references SC's Elastic (Necessary & Proper) Clause

Video 3.2: Pippa Norris 'Electoral Integrity and Electoral Systems ' 22 March 2016
Description: Analyzes why elections fail - including a lack of power-sharing like federalism

Learning objective 3.3: Trace the development of American federalism over time

Web Link 3.1: Watch the United States Grow

Video 3.1: Constitutional Battle Ground State
Description: Host uses marijuana as a an example of challenges of federalism

Video 3.3: Federalism and the Constitution: the 17th Amendment
Description: Professor explores the history of federalism through the early 20th century

Learning objective 3.4: Describe the impact of economic crisis in the changes to American federalism during the New Deal era

Video 3.4: Plessy v Ferguson
Description: Analysis of the Plessy v. Ferguson Decision

Learning objective 3.6: Discuss the current status of American federalism and how it might continue to evolve

Web Link 3.4: Community Development Block Grant Program – CDBG
Description: Explanations of HUD Block Grants to exemplify cooperative federalism