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This 20 page paper argues that it is the responsibility of the states, not the federal government, to provide funding as a response to natural disasters; it considers the situation in New Orleans in particular. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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the various agencies charged with responding to such emergencies. The idea that certain powers are reserved to the states, and that it is inappropriate for the federal government to
intervene in these cases, is as old as the nation, and as problematic. This paper argues that it is the responsibility of the states, not the federal government, to
provide funding as a response to natural disasters; it considers the situation in New Orleans in particular. Types of Federalism For U.S. citizens, the multi-tiered governmental system (federal,
state, local) is something we take for granted. We forget that this structure is the result of long deliberation and a hard fight for ratification, and that there were
two kinds of federalism under consideration. The main "bone of contention" was the issue of states rights and how much power the states would have, as opposed to how
much power would be reserved to the federal government. This issue was divisive in 1776 and it is still debated today. It derives in part from the competing
theories of federalism: dual and cooperative. Broadly stated, "dual federalism" holds that the federal government and the state governments are co-equals, while "cooperative federalism" says that the national government
has precedence over the states. In practice, it is cooperative federalism that has largely held sway. In Federalist 32, Alexander Hamilton wrote out explicitly the "key elements of the
theory of dual federalism: But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty
which they before had, and which were not, by that act, exclusively delegated to the United States. This exclusive delegation, or rather this alienation, of State sovereignty would only exist
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