Creative Federalism

(1960-1980)

Richard Evan Brighi

Joe Pedoto

Mitchell Sanchez

Sarah Lyon

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What

is it

?

Creative Federalism,

popular during the Johnson

Administration (1963-9)

was a shift in power more

toward the federal government. As in Roosevelt’s New Deal

policies, Johnson’s Great

Society programs involved

granting money directly to

local governments in order

to assist in solving social

and racial problems in the

United States.

Lyndon Johnso

n

and G

reat

Soci

ety

One of the key pieces of

Creative (Picket Fence)

Federalism, the Great

Society programs of the

1960’s involved the National government

providing direct relief to

local governments, bypassing the states, for

education, social issues,

medical research, housing,

and transportation among

others

Speci

fic

Gre

at

Soci

ety

Pr

ogra

ms

Social Security Act of 1965

Authorized Medicare and provided federal

funding for many of the medical costs of

older Americans Elementary and Secondary Education

Act of 1965Allowed the federal government to fund

public education directly

Economic Opportunity Act of 1964

Created the Office of Economic Opportunity

to oversee various antipoverty community

projects Voting Rights Act of 1965

Eliminated literacy tests and other

exclusive registration policies, assuring

minorities the right to vote.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Forbade discrimination in the workplace

and segregation of public accommodations

Polit

ical a

nd

Soci

al C

hange

Creation of Bureau of

Housing and Urban Development to clean up

our cities and improve

housing conditions Creation of youth corps

to provide work for those

most in need Authorized millions of

dollars in medical research, including cancer and heart disease

research

Case

s

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

In Escobedo v. Illinois

(1964), the Supreme Court

decided that defendants

had the right to legal

representation while being

interrogated Two years later, the court

ruled that anything said

during arrest and interrogation could be used

in court as long as the

officers performing the

arrest read a set of rights to

the suspect

Case

s

Roe v. Wade (1973) After being denied an

abortion, Norma McCorvey

filed a suit (under the alias

Jane Roe) that was brought

before the Supreme Court

Ultimately, the Court

decided in favor of Roe,

stating abortion is a Constitutional right and

stating that all anti-abortion

policies filed by state

governments would be

reviewed under strict

scrutiny

Case

s

Baker v. Carr (1962) In Tennessee, it was required that

statewide districts of jurisdiction

must be redesigned based on the

state census every ten years.

Charles Baker alleged that the

state had not been redistricted

since 1901 and that he was being

denied equal protection under the

laws. The State argued that Baker’s

complaints were political in nature,

so the Court decided that

redistricting lawsuits were not

political in nature and released a

list of six factors that determined

what was political and what was

justiciable.

Work

s C

ited http://www.learner.org/cours

es/democracyinameric

a/dia_3/unit3.swfhttp://www.thefreema

nonline.org/columns/cr

eative-federalism/

http://www2.fiu.edu/~

ganapati/3003/federali

sm.html