Essays on Intergovernmental Relations

Ivana Susic

Before Federation (prior to 1901), Australia was not a nation; each of the British colonies was its own self-ruling state. Each had separate laws and regulations and functioned effectively as a separate country. Those colonies were: New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia, the last one to join (Singleton et al. 2013, pp.55-56). According to “Federation 1890-1910” published by the government of Western Australia (n.d.), that state had delayed its decision because it had seen such rapid changes in the previous decade, including the discovery of gold and a population increase from 50,000 to near 200,000. ...

Question No. 1 Evolution of Federalism

One aspect of federalism that evolved through time is the jurisdiction of federal courts. In Chisholm v. Georgia 2 U.S. 419 (1793), an out-of-state citizen sued Georgia for unpaid supplies delivered during the Revolution. The Court held that such a claim could prosper in a federal court, but Justice Iredell dissented on the grounds that the state should not be subjected to a lawsuit unless it gives its consent under the common law concept. Georgia, therefore, did not have to defend itself in a private federal court action. The case inspired the passage of the 11th Amendment, which precluded federal courts from hearing ...

Abstract

This essay assesses whether Australian federalism has or has not changed dramatically since the Constitution was inaugurated in 1901. It looks at the way the central government (the Commonwealth) and the State governments have interacted, and the various changes along the way that have shifted the balance of powers to reach the point we are at today. In addition to considering the general situation, the essay looks at specific issues such as fiscal changes including taxation, and at specific areas of policy such as education and health (including Aboriginal health issues). From the research undertaken it is evident that ...

The Founding Fathers upon the establishment of the Union indeed recognized the need for a strong Union. However, this did not necessarily envisage weaker states. Indeed, the federal system anticipated a de-concentration of power and governance from one center to different peripheries. The difference between the time then and now lies in the fact that the federal experiment has been tested fully. Suffice it to say that despite the overwhelming challenges, America has a more perfect Union today. However, within that context lies a struggle for power that essentially pits the federal government against the state governments. This paper shall discuss the relatively dicey ...

Morton Grodzins, The American System as a Single Mechanism, 1966

THESIS In the view of author, the US government is involved in complexity due to the involvement of all three layers of government in all the functions. The three layers are working or functioning with unclear or undistinguished roles. The division of authorities and responsibilities among all the tree levels is the main issue in the US system. In the author’s opinion, governments have to appropriately divide the authorities and responsibilities among all the three layers to avoid overlapping of functions. The great number of governments does cover complication of activities. Distribution is not appropriately administrated ...

Question one: Discuss how and to what extent the U.S. Constitution governs and affects the intergovernmental relations in The United States of America. Discuss the tensions and conflicts between the levels of government The Constitution of the United States of America indeed contemplates three tiers of government under the federal system. The federal system of governance is informed by the need to have different centers of power sharing governance of the same regions and persons. In that respect, it was essential for the Constitution to stipulate the relations between the government levels. The Constitution in as much as ...

Introduction

The United States of America is a federal government. In that aspect, the Constitution anticipates the sharing of power between the states and the national government. Ideally, that is what informed the Federalists spirit towards the creation of the United States of America. This paper is based on the federalism envisaged by the United States Constitution. U.S. Constitution governing and affecting intergovernmental relations The United States Constitution expressly provide for the precedence that ought to take place in cases of clashes between the national and state government. According to the Constitutional supremacy clause, the Federal Government is given ...

After the American colonies won their independence from the British, the thirteen colonies became the current thirteen states on America. These states have formed a league that enables them to work together in harmony. The Article of Confederation was a document that described their system of government, where the state governments had most of the power than the national/federal government. However, this contradicted the government under the King that placed the national/federal government above the state governments. The constitution was written in order to replace the Article of confederation, which the founding fathers thought to leave the nation too weak. The ...

The answer which has been penned in response to the question in context delves deep into the nature of the Federal state and the functionalism of the federal structure which has its intricacies. One gets a comprehensive view of the federal structure by reading the answer. The Wichita Contamination Case’s details, however, have not been discussed in detail in the answer. The answer provides an overview of the importance of intergovernmental relations and relates the matter to the Wichita issue well. There is not detailed data about the procedure of procuring the money and amenities on the part of ...

Public administration is a broader discipline that is in most cases concerned with the implementation of government policies. Intergovernmental relations is one array of interaction in which different government agencies come together in discussions of various issues and factors that are considered to have certain degree of collective concern through which they are able to establish one possible solution to. Through federalism which involves separation of power through various government levels, seem to have been the best played mechanism through which Wichita is found to have confronted the contamination menace. Wichita confronts contamination case study is very important in the ...

- How the U.S constitution governs and affects the intergovernmental relations in the United States. Since the ratification of the United States constitutions more than 200 years ago, there have existed some controversial issues concerning the relationships between the state government and the national government. The main controversies always appear when the following two questions are asked. The first question is always about the nature of the union between the state governments and the federal government. The other questions that appears to be ambiguous with regard to the relationship between the two governments is always about the authority, ...

In addition to the fact that Tiebout's assumptions are unrealistic, as mentioned before, even with these assumptions he did not provide a mathematical proof of the equilibrium in his article. Some scholars tried to formalize the model and suggest that the model does not work as we would expect from a pareto optimal general equilibrium model. Bewley (1981) showed that Tiebout equilibrium does not have a Pareto optimal solution unless we add some other restrictive assumptions to the model. He provided a series of examples which highlights the inefficiency of Tiebout model. Moreover, as the reviewed literature shows, relaxing Tiebout’s assumption does ...