Louis Brandeis praised federalism as allowing states to experiment and make the best laws.
This concept explains how within the federal framework, there exists a system of state autonomy where state and local governments act as social laboratories, where laws and policies are created and tested at the state level of the democratic system, in a manner similar (in theory, at least) to the scientific method. An example today would be the legalization of marijuana in Colorado despite the fact that it is illegal federally.
The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that "all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." This is a basis for the laboratories of democracy concept, because the Tenth Amendment assigns most day-to-day governance responsibilities, including general police power, to the state and local governments. Because there are 50 semi-autonomous states, different policies can be enacted and tested at the state level without directly affecting the entire country.
As a result, a diverse patchwork of state-level government practices is created. If any one or more of those policies are successful, they can be expanded to the national level by acts of Congress. For example, the Massachusetts legislature established a health care reform law in 2006 that became the model for the subsequent Affordable Care Act at the national level in 2010, or the various concealed carry state reciprocity agreements that motivated the subsequent proposed federal Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017.
laboratories, democracy, phrase, popularized, supreme, court, justice, louis, brandeis, state, liebmann, describe, single, courageous, state, citizens, choose, serve, laboratory, novel, social, economic, experiments, without, risk, rest, country, brandeis, ass. Laboratories of democracy is a phrase popularized by U S Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in New State Ice Co v Liebmann to describe how a single courageous State may if its citizens choose serve as a laboratory and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country 1 Brandeis was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939 Louis Brandeis praised federalism as allowing states to experiment and make the best laws This concept explains how within the federal framework there exists a system of state autonomy where state and local governments act as social laboratories where laws and policies are created and tested at the state level of the democratic system in a manner similar in theory at least to the scientific method An example today would be the legalization of marijuana in Colorado despite the fact that it is illegal federally The Tenth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved to the States respectively or to the people This is a basis for the laboratories of democracy concept because the Tenth Amendment assigns most day to day governance responsibilities including general police power to the state and local governments Because there are 50 semi autonomous states different policies can be enacted and tested at the state level without directly affecting the entire country As a result a diverse patchwork of state level government practices is created If any one or more of those policies are successful they can be expanded to the national level by acts of Congress For example the Massachusetts legislature established a health care reform law in 2006 that became the model for the subsequent Affordable Care Act at the national level in 2010 or the various concealed carry state reciprocity agreements that motivated the subsequent proposed federal Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 See also editFederalism in the United States Full Faith and Credit Clause New FederalismReferences edit New State Ice Co v Liebmann 285 U S 262 1932 External links editState and Local Governments Laboratories of Democracy America gov 16 December 2007 Ralph Nader State Legislatures as Laboratories Of Democracy CommonDreams org 31 May 2004 Laboratories of Democracy Anatomy of a Metaphor AEI Federalist Outlook Michael Greve March 2001 nbsp nbsp This article relating to law in the United States or its constituent jurisdictions is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Laboratories of democracy amp oldid 1150777587, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
