Federalism, preemption, and the nationalization of American wildlife management: the dynamic balance between state and federal authority
From the Mayflower compact to the U.S. Constitution : 1620-1789 -- Defining the new government and the separation of powers : 1789-1835 -- Westward Expansion, the First Industrial Revolution, dual sovereignty, and the Public Trust Doctrine : 1835-1861 -- The Civil War, reconstruction, the advent of the Second Industrial Revolution, the Enduring Public Trust Doctrine and state ownership of wildlife : 1861-1896 -- America's changing culture : market hunting, the Lacey Act, the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and the beginning of the progressive era : 1896-1910 -- The ethos of the Industrial Revolution drives the progressive movement into America's social fabric and laws : 1910-1919 -- Prohibition and reform : the emergence of the administrative state : 1919-1933 -- The Great Depression, FDR's new deal, and a "new" Supreme Court overwhelms states' rights : 1933-1941 -- The competing ideologies that characterized the progressive movement and beyond : 1890-1940 -- The stone court and the development of the presumption against preemption in rice : 1941-1946 -- The end of the state wildlife ownership doctrine following World War II : 1946-1969 -- The Burger Court - state ownership of wildlife declared a legal fiction and anachronism : 1969-1986 -- The Rehnquist Court : a continued swing towards conservative federalism and preemption : 1986-2005 -- The Roberts Court and the development of area-specific jurisprudence : 2005 - 2022 -- The future of federal preemption of state authority over wildlife, and the presumption against preemption doctrine in wildlife cases -- State and federal cooperation and coordination of the Endangered Species Act : past and present -- The three biggest threats undermining federalism and state wildlife management authority -- Funding endangered species conservation : the achilles heel.
