Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Progressive Federalism

Since were talking about Federalism at this time I happened to discover this article called Obama Seems to Be Open to a Broader Role for States. Which is about Obama's Administration, trying to give power to the states over the limits of greenhouse gases from autos. Legal experts presume this arrangement is a red flag in which to broaden the relationship between the federal and states government, "a new view of federalism." Some political leaders discuss their opinion of how this idea would be a positive or negative concept. Others explain we should do something about federal power because were not improving whatsoever. "William Marshall, a law professor at the University of North Carolina who was deputy White House counsel in the Clinton administration and a former solicitor general of Ohio stated, “the pro-regulatory folks realized in the last eight years that the old line on federal power being the only good power wasn’t correct, it doesn’t mean you abandon the federal regulatory process — you don’t, of course,” Mr. Marshall said. “But you treat it as a floor and not a ceiling.””

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