One of the major goals of the new federalism was to:

A. administerspecific policies and programs at all levels of government-national, state, and local.
B. increase cooperation between the federal and the state governments to solve various national issues.
C. return to the states certain powers that had been exercised by the national government since the 1930s.
D. enable businesses to move to jurisdictions that offered a competitive advantage.
E. grant state governments the power to counter national policies that did not serve their best interests.


Answer: C

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