One of Reagan's initiatives was New Federalism - an attempt to shift power away from DC and back to the states. Federal grants to states had always come with strings attached, and over time that had tended to rob states of actual policymaking authority. Reagan wanted to cut some of those strings to allow states a greater role in administ…
One of Reagan's initiatives was New Federalism - an attempt to shift power away from DC and back to the states. Federal grants to states had always come with strings attached, and over time that had tended to rob states of actual policymaking authority. Reagan wanted to cut some of those strings to allow states a greater role in administering their own affairs. For conservatives, this was a matter of faithfulness to the Constitution - especially the 10th amendment. Reagan's success with this agenda was mixed - it might have been one of the things that was left incomplete because of his Alzheimer's.
One of Reagan's initiatives was New Federalism - an attempt to shift power away from DC and back to the states. Federal grants to states had always come with strings attached, and over time that had tended to rob states of actual policymaking authority. Reagan wanted to cut some of those strings to allow states a greater role in administering their own affairs. For conservatives, this was a matter of faithfulness to the Constitution - especially the 10th amendment. Reagan's success with this agenda was mixed - it might have been one of the things that was left incomplete because of his Alzheimer's.
Or he was celebrating the murder of the freedom riders.