Praxis II Government and Political Science

Category - Constitution & Rights

Which of the following does the term "New Federalism" refer to?
  1. The growing power of the federal government over local and municipal governments
  2. The growing influence of iron triangles on the federal budget
  3. The conservative movement designed to return more power and control of money to the states
  4. Increased government spending in education
Explanation
Answer: C - The term "New Federalism" refers to the conservative movement that is designed to return more power and control of money to the states. New Federalism is a conservative political philosophy focusing upon the transfer of certain powers from the federal government to the states. The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration to the states of the autonomy and power which they lost to the federal government after President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and federal civil rights laws in the 1960s.
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