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The Intolerable Acts, also known as the Coercive Acts, were a series of controversial laws passed in the Thirteen Colonies in America by the British parliament. In this guide, we’ve explained what the Intolerable Acts did, and how colonists reacted to the new laws.
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Dual Federalism
- Cooperative Federalism
- Coercive Federalism
- Conclusion
- References
- Further Reading
Donald Trump is a transgressive president elected by a minority of voters but elevated to the White House by a quintessential institution of American federalism, the Electoral College. However, the federal system otherwise poses significant barriers to transgressive behaviour because it is a complex mix of dualism, intergovernmental cooperation, an...
Descriptions of American federalism are like the blind men and the elephant. There is a failure to link the pieces into a coherent picture, in part because American federalism has evolved into a complex system of compatible and seemingly incompatible elements. Also, characteristics of one facet of the system are often generalized to the whole syste...
Scholars often note that despite the post-1960s growth of coercive federal power, states still exercise considerable policy autonomy, such as legalizing medical and recreational marijuana (which are illegal under federal law) and physician-assisted suicide, and pursuing climate-change initiatives, school choice, abortion rules, consumer protection,...
Cooperative federalism is often said to have originated in the 1930s (Clark, 1938), but intergovernmental cooperation has been present since 1789 (Elazar, 1962). For example, Congress deferred to state concerns in the Judiciary Act of 1789 by creating federal district-courts wholly within state boundaries. Nineteenth-century cooperation also includ...
Coercive (Kincaid, 1990) or regulatory federalism (U.S. Advisory, 1984), which emerged in the 1960s under President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “creative federalism,” describes an era in which the federal government can assert its policy will unilaterally over state and local governments. There are few constitutional or political limits on exercises of fed...
Although policy alterations from one presidential administration to another are common in today’s era of polarization, there continues to be more continuity than discontinuity in the federal system because the coexisting elements of the system are highly institutionalized and path dependent. Dual federalism, while less robust than in the past, stil...
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Sep 22, 2022 · In 1774, the British Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, a group of measures primarily intended to punish Boston for rebellion against the British government—namely, the Boston Tea Party....
- Becky Little
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Contemporary Coercive Labor Practices – Slavery Today; By Kevin Bales; Edited by David Eltis, Emory University, Atlanta, Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester, New York, Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, David Richardson, University of Hull; Book: The Cambridge World History of Slavery; Online publication: 20 April 2017
- Kevin Bales
- 2017
Jan 28, 2022 · Parliament responded to the Boston Tea Party by passing four acts, known as the Coercive Acts, that were aimed at punishing the town of Boston and the colony of Massachusetts, along with a fifth act that was meant to appease the French inhabitants of the Province of Quebec.
- Randal Rust
In the United States, debt bondage was a common means by which southern farmers kept a labor force of African American people and poor White people at their disposal. It also trapped many Asian laborers who immigrated to South America, even after their contracts had expired.
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How have unfree people and coerced workers navigated, collaborated with, and resisted these systems? And how have individual and community efforts at liberation contributed to modern ideas of citizenship, equality, and human rights? We'll explore these and other questions over three days of presentations and discussion.
