Civil War: Federalism in Crisis
The Civil War threatened the survival of the American experiment. Could states legitimately claim a right to secede from the nation? Pre… See more

Rapid industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries raised a variety of economic and social issues that in turn produced a series of political reforms. Th… See more

The Reconstruction Amendments profoundly impacted the federal-state balance by applying the Bill of Rights through the Fourteenth Amendment (“incorporat… See more

After his election in 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt initiated a series of economic and regulatory programs to address the Great Depression. Congress passed the … See more