Discuss the benefits and costs of devolution using the examples in the textbook
What will be an ideal response?
?Welfare case: devolution in 1996 resulted in fewer welfare cases, more employment, lowered costs to the federal government, and increased state responsibility, but the lower costs were transitory, and ultimately created more rules than previously.Marijuana case:despite state governments passing ballot initiatives, the federal government is reluctant to give up control as there are few politicians interested in the cause at the national level. Federal power over commerce and banking give the federal government de facto control, even though public health and morals is traditionally a state area.?
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