You are a senior advisor to the Governor of New York State and the federal government has continuously interfered with state policy from sanctuary cities to reproductive rights to the US Census process. Based upon the materials fromhour 1 of next week'sclass, what is the strongest constitutional argument that can be made that the federal government cannot interfere with the state government and that the states are supreme?

Present an argument that asserts reasons that the federal government may not interfere with state government decisions. What circumstances justify interference of the federal government in state jurisdiction? Support claim using cases and amendments. What aspects of state policy do federal officials continuously interfere with? Provide a counter argument. conclusion.

Hour 1. Making sense of who's supreme, where, when, and why

• "Cabinet Battle #1"Hamilton, The Musical(note: explicit language) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBmTdJ4XTfs

• HBO Clip from John Adams:Hamilton versus Jefferson on federal authority - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notJuFGXQ9w

• Charles Cooper, "The Constitution in One Sentence: Understanding the Tenth Amendment"The Heritage Foundation -https://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/report/the-constitution-one-sentence-understanding-the-tenth-amendment

• Edmund Andrews, "Steven Callander: How to Make States "Laboratories of Democracy""Stanford Business School "Insight" Blog(May 2015) - https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/steven-callander-how-make-states-laboratories-democracy

• Jeffrey Rosen, "States' Rights for the Left"New York Times(December 3, 2016) - https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/opinion/sunday/states-rights-for-the-left.html?mcubz=3&_r=0

• Matt Joyner, "Blue States' Rights: How States' Rights Are Making a Comeback on the Left" - https://observer.com/2017/04/blue-states-rights-making-a-comeback-on-the-political-left-donald-trump-democracy-constitution/Observer(April 5, 2017)

• Tim Donner, "The 10th Amendment and revival of federalism"The Washington Times(December 12, 2016) https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/12/the-10th-amendment-and-revival-of-federalism/

• The U.S. Constitution:Article I, section 8;Article I, section 10;Article VI;X Amendment; XIV Amendment https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlei#section8

• Richard Briffault, "State Constitutions in the Federal System" pages 3-15 from the New York State Constitution:A briefing Bookhttps://rockinst.org/index.php

• "Local and State Government Can Protect the Constitution From Trump"Time(November 30, 2016) https://time.com/4584803/donald-trump-states-rights/

• Daniel Vock, "How Obama Changed the Relationship Between Washington, the States and the Cities"Governing(June 2016) https://www.governing.com/topics/politics/gov-obama-federalism.html