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American Goverment
Chapthers 1,2, and 3. We the People
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 1
02/21/2011

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Cooperative Federalism
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is a concept of federalism in which national, state, and local governments interact cooperatively and collectively to solve common problems, rather than making policies separately but more or less equally (such as the nineteenth century's dual federalism) or clashing over a policy in a system dominated by the national government.
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Federalist #10
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is an essay written by James Madison and the tenth of the Federalist Papers, a series arguing for the ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Spirit of the Laws
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Montesquieu
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Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol
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Edmund Burke
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
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Charles Beard
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Decleration of Independence
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Tom Jefferson
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Social Contract
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Rousseau
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Contract with America
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Newt Gingrich
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Liberal Tradition in America
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Louis Hartz
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The Power Elite
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C Wright Mills
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Nullification Doctrine
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John C. Calhoun
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Leviathan
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Thomas Hobbes
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On Liberty
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John Stuart Mill
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"Father of the Constitution"
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James Madison
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Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
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Charles Beard
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Majority Opinion on Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Roger Taney
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Minority Opinion on Plessy v. Ferguson
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John Marshall Harlan
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Majority Opinion on Marbury v. Madison
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John Marshall
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Second Treatise on Civil Government
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John Locke
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Democracy in America
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Tocqueville
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Bill of Rights
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James Madison
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The Majority Opinion on McCulloch v. Maryland
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John Marshall
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Federalist #47 & #51
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James Madison
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Majority Opinion on Brown v. Board
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Earl Warren
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Debtor Revolt of 1786
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Daniel Shays
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"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing"
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Edmund Burke
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10th Amendment-Powers of States and people.
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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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