What effect would President Reagan have had if his proposals for devolution were fully implemented?
a. The states would have been stripped of all power to implement social welfare and the power would be the sole responsibility of the federal government.
b. Such a large-scale devolution of federal programs would have returned federal-state relations to the version of federalism that existed before the New Deal.
c. President Reagan would have reduced all of the states’ responsibilities, allowing the federal government to act as a nanny government.
d. During his tenure, President Reagan would have appointed only justices with liberal ideologies to the Supreme Court.
e. President Reagan would have arbitrated a stronger relationship between the Supreme Court and Congress whereby they worked cooperatively and in unison to implement policies.
ANS: B
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