Article V Conventions and American Federalism: Contemporary Politics in Historical Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 515-539
Author(s):  
Patrick M Condray ◽  
Timothy J Conlan
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Constitutional Amendments ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Federalism ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Historical Practice

AbstractThis article examines the federalism implications of state-initiated calls for an Article V convention. Article V of the U.S. Constitution allows two-thirds of the states to call for a convention to consider one or more Constitutional amendments. This article explores the framers’ intent in adding this provision to the Constitution, the history of state efforts to call an Article V convention, and the politics of contemporary efforts to promote such a convention. It utilizes a unique database of 354 state calls for an Article V convention to analyze the evolving politics of this constitutional mechanism. It argues that recent state efforts to promote an Article V convention mirror some historical patterns, particularly the focus on limiting federal government powers in some way. At the same time, Article V initiatives since 2010 diverge from historical practice in their exceedingly partisan nature, which may alter their implications for the federal system.

scholarly journals Восстановление автономий репрессированных народов Калмыкии и Северного Кавказа в конце 1950-х гг. и проблема реабилитации: дискуссионные вопросы в современной российской историографии

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-86
Author(s):  
Evgeniy A. Gunaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Legal Aspects ◽  
General Context ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
History Of ◽  
Southern Russia ◽  
Critical Notes

Introduction. The late 1950s restoration of autonomies for the repressed peoples is an important era in the history of those ethnic statehoods. Still, even over 60 years thereafter quite a number of issues remain essentially problematic. And the main question is as follows: Can one interpret the late 1950s restoration of autonomies for the repressed peoples of Southern Russia as a rehabilitation? Materials and Methods. The study analyzes a number of scholarly Russian historiographical publications examining the mentioned period, and employs the historical genetic and historical legal methods. Results. The article considers a range of problematic issues, such as substantial features of ‘rehabilitation’ for repressed peoples in the Soviet era, political and historical essentials of the process, general issues of periodization of the rehabilitation (including that of the Soviet era), debating aspects of the phenomenon in respect to the restoration of autonomies, contemporary political and legal aspects related to the Soviet restoration of South Russia’s ethnic autonomies. Conclusions. In Russian historiography, there is a consensus as to the identification of the period of the restoration of autonomies for the repressed peoples as a rehabilitation, though incomplete one. The paper shows observation of the principle of historicism presupposes this period be viewed in a general context of the whole Soviet era that witnessed the rehabilitation of repressed peoples pinnacled with the rehabilitation decrees of perestroika. Since 1992 there emerged a new — Russian — stage of the rehabilitation. As for critical notes on outdated norms of the RSFSR Law On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples, it seems evident that the agenda of its complete implementation was never actualized by federal government agencies since the mid-1990s. It is possible that another law be created in future to comprise the rehabilitation experiences of the Soviets, including that of the initial stage from the late 1950s. This would require explicit political and legal assessments of the repressed peoples’ rehabilitation in a historical perspective.

The Importance of Good Data

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Spetz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Health Resources ◽  
The United States ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Future Research ◽  
National Sample Survey ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

In 1977, the federal government launched the nation's largest and most significant program to collect data on the registered nurse (RN) workforce of the United States—the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses (NSSRN). This survey is conducted by the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration, first in 1977 and then every 4 years since 1980. This article offers the history of the NSSRN and a review of the ways in which the NSSRN data have been used to examine education, demographics, employment, shortages, and other aspects of the RN workforce. The influence this body of research has had on policymaking is explored. Recommendations for future research are offered, in the hope that future waves of the NSSRN will continue to be used to their fullest potential.

Health Planning and the U.S. Federal Government

1972 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. L. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Health Planning ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Planning Techniques ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Financial Plan ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Hill ◽  
The U.S

The history of health planning efforts within the federal government is summarized, starting with enactment of the Hill—Burton legislation in 1946. Shortcomings in planning by the central government and in its guidance of the states are noted. The recent development of certain federal health planning techniques—a program structure, the five—year program and financial plan, and program analyses—is summarized. Political and administrative constraints on planners, within the system of federal—state—local relationships, are explored. The degree to which planning is applicable to current health problems, including those of rising prices and misuse of resources, and future federal reactions to these problems, are commented upon.

6. Law: 1866–1876

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-100
Author(s):  
Allen C. Guelzo
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Federal System ◽  
Race Politics ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Do So

So much of Reconstruction is understood as a struggle over race, politics, and the nature of state sovereignty within a federal system that not enough attention is paid to how it was also a constitutional struggle between the branches of the federal government. ‘Law, 1866–876’ describes the key legal debates that were raised during the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. The U.S. Constitution apportioned various federal responsibilities among the three federal branches—executive (the presidency), legislative (Congress), and judicial (the federal courts)—but it did not do so evenly or in the same detail.

Like Cuba and the Philippines

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-141
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Kim
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Mexican Revolution ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Woodrow Wilson ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The U.S

This chapter explores how investors based in Los Angeles expected the U.S. government to intervene on their behalf to protect personal and urban interests from the unrest caused by the Mexican Revolution and the rewriting of the Mexican Constitution in 1917. Drawing on a history of imperial interventions on the part of the United States across Latin America and the Caribbean as well as in the Philippines and Hawaii, Los Angeles investors rolled out a forceful lobbying campaign to push the federal government, particularly President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, to intervene militarily in Mexico. The effort was led by Los Angeles lawyer Thomas Gibbon and oil producer Edward Doheny, and through a lobbying organization formed in Los Angeles, the National Association for the Protection of American Rights in Mexico. These maneuvers for intervention placed Angelenos at the forefront of American foreign policy toward Mexico between 1910 and 1930.

scholarly journals Public Comment on Draft NOAA Citizen Science Strategy

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Lea Shanley ◽  
Pietro Michelucci ◽  
Krystal Tsosie ◽  
George Wyeth ◽  
Julia Kumari Drapkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
Public Comment ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

This guest editorial briefly describes a history of activities related to engaging the U.S. federal government in citizen science, and presents the recent public comments that we submitted to the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) in response to their recently published draft citizen science strategy.

scholarly journals America's Wellness Consumerism

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karina Veronica Sarandrea
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Common Framework ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Health Legislation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Health Information Sharing ◽  
The U.S

The purpose of the study is to investigate historical “wellness consumerism” and why it has continued to exist. Wellness consumerism is distinct from concepts like health consumerism in that it is not strictly related to or reinforced by the U.S. health care system. The opposite has tended to occur because of rampant online health misinformation. Present research does not unite public health, online health misinformation, and socioeconomic influences (e.g. the wellness movement and wellness economy) under a common framework nor does it examine them with a historical perspective. In addition, present research does not examine the relationship between online health misinformation and wellness trends. Medical journals, the history of the wellness movement, and oral history interviews from witnesses of the wellness movement were used to explore wellness consumerism’s impact on people and public health. A study was conducted on a random sample of Amazon dietary supplements to investigate the relationship between health misinformation and affiliation with wellness trends. The results provide strong evidence for an association between the two, suggesting that producers of the wellness economy may be likely to spread health misinformation. Wellness consumerism resulted from co-optation of wellness by producers and has sustained longevity because it fills a gap in healthcare demand and worsens existing distrust in it. Wellness consumerism promotes a cycle of health information sharing that has negative implications for public health. This study highlights health problems uniquely associated with wellness consumerism and sheds light on other possible future socioeconomic challenges to public health while providing a basis for further consumer protections or health legislation that may be discussed in U.S. policy circles

A New Look at Turnover in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789-1998

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN W. SWAIN ◽  
STEPHEN A. BORRELLI ◽  
BRIAN C. REED ◽  
SEAN F. EVANS
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
General Election ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History ◽  
Basic Facts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Primary Form

Despite concern with turnover in the U.S. House of Representatives, few scholars have attempted to view turnover in historical perspective or in all its forms. Confusion over the basic facts has impeded attempts to explain and evaluate levels of turnover. We present a broad descriptive overview of turnover over the entire history of the U.S. House in terms of the levels of overall turnover, forms thereof, and patterns, particularly within party periods. The findings include that turnover has declined over the years but not in a continuous fashion and not evenly among the different forms, that general election defeat is not the primary form of turnover, that common methods of reporting turnover magnify the apparent importance of electorally based turnover, and that turnover varies systematically by party period. A research agenda is proposed for explanatory work on turnover including strategic retirement and the impact of partisan realignments on levels and forms of turnover.

Economic Views of L. Trotsky

2004 ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
M. Voeikov ◽  
S. Dzarasov
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Russian History ◽  
History Of

The paper written in the light of 125th birth anniversary of L. Trotsky analyzes the life and ideas of one of the most prominent figures in the Russian history of the 20th century. He was one of the leaders of the Russian revolution in its Bolshevik period, worked with V. Lenin and played a significant role in the Civil War. Rejected by the party bureaucracy L. Trotsky led uncompromising struggle against Stalinism, defending his own understanding of the revolutionary ideals. The authors try to explain these events in historical perspective, avoiding biases of both Stalinism and anticommunism.

‘The Stuff of Slow Constitution’: Reading Down Syndrome for Race, Disability, and the Timing that Makes Them So

Somatechnics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mel Y. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Trisomy 21 ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Early History ◽  
Present Moment ◽  
History Of ◽  
Living Being

In this paper I would like to bring into historical perspective the interrelation of several notions such as race and disability, which at the present moment seem to risk, especially in the fixing language of diversity, being institutionalised as orthogonal in nature to one another rather than co-constitutive. I bring these notions into historical clarity primarily through the early history of what is today known as Down Syndrome or Trisomy 21, but in 1866 was given the name ‘mongoloid idiocy’ by English physician John Langdon Down. In order to examine the complexity of these notions, I explore the idea of ‘slow’ populations in development, the idea of a material(ist) constitution of a living being, the ‘fit’ or aptness of environmental biochemistries broadly construed, and, finally, the germinal interarticulation of race and disability – an ensemble that continues to commutatively enflesh each of these notions in their turn.

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