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Assignment

Watch the Federalism Video and review the text to respond to the following questions below. (You will need to search on the title of the clip, called "Gun Control & State Sovereignty." It is from Season 9, Episode 52.)

Your initial post should be a minimum of 8 lines in length and be written in sentences (rather than just listing the letter, or a short phrase).

1) Federalism defines the sharing of power between the federal and state governments. Recently, lawmakers in some states have proposed legislation to make it illegal for state and local law enforcement officials to implement (or enforce) any gun control restrictions that might be passed into law at the national level.

Which of the following is NOT a section of the Constitution that addresses the balance of power between states and the federal government?

Supremacy clause (Article VI, Clause 2)

Tenth Amendment

Eleventh Amendment

Impeachment procedures (Article II, Section4)

2) Which states in the video had seen proposals to limit the application of federal gun restrictions? What is it about these states that might explain their interest in such legislation?

3) What does the Constitution say about instances in which state and federal laws are in conflict with one another? That is, how is such conflict resolved, and who wins?

4) Identify one policy that should be decided by the federal government and one policy that should be decided by the states. Why, in each case, is that level of government most suited to decide such policy? (Be sure to give one example of each and the rationale for each.)