1st Edition
Mandate Madness How Congress Forces States and Localities to Do its Bidding and Pay for the Privilege
Edited By James T. Bennett
Copyright 2014
301 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
302 Pages
by
Routledge
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What do drivers' licenses that function as national ID cards, nationwide standardized tests for third graders, the late unlamented 55 mile per hour speed limit, the outlawing of the eighteen-year-old beer drinker, and the disappearing mechanical lever voting machine have in common? Each is the product of an unfunded federal mandate: a concept that politicians of both parties profess to oppose in... Read more
Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: The Mandate Temptation 2 From Federalism to Coercion: A Brief History of MandatesI Roads, Rum, and Restraints 3 Drinking, Driving, and Dole: How Washington Mandated a 21-Year-Old Drinking Age to the States 4 I Can't Drive 55? Oh Yes You Can! 5 Motorcycle Helmets and Seat Belts: The Mandates That Weren'tII Abcs, Ids, and Voting: Mandates for the Twenty-First Century 6 No Child Left Behind: When George W. Bush Decided to Teach Your Children Well (or Otherwise) 7 The Help America Vote Act: Good-bye, Lever Machines; Hello, Coercion 8 REAL ID: The States Fight Back 9 Will Mandates Never Cease?Index
Biography
James T. Bennett
