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CP

The United States federal government should devolve authority over [the plan] to the 50 state governments and relevant territories. The 50 state governments and relevant territories should do of the plan. The States will fund the CP by legalizing and taxing marijuana.


 * Legalizing marijuana across the states will solve the state budgets – zero deficit in 9 years and the fed fails**
 * Koslow 16** (Tyler Koslow is a Brooklyn-based freelance writer with an intensive focus on technology, social justice, health and fitness, politics, and current events. He has an English-Creative Writing degree from The University of Central Florida; "Cannabis By The Numbers: How Much Money Will States Bring in From Marijuana in 2016?" Merry Jane; May 17, 2016; https://merryjane.com/news/cannabis-by-the-numbers-how-much-money-will-states-bring-in-from-marijuana-in-2016)

Nationwide marijuana legalization could produce AND legalized medicinal or recreational use of marijuana.

Neal McCluskey is the director of the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom and maintains Cato's Public Schooling Battle Map. " Commentary Should the Feds Decide the Transgender Bathroom Issue?" - May 17, 2016 – #CutWithKirby - https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/should-feds-decide-transgender-bathroom-issue Much of this debate has been framed as conservatives versus liberals, or traditionalists versus AND thirds did. The federal Civil Rights Act did not come until 1964.
 * The Counterplan solves without being a federal imposition. This avoids our disads.**
 * McCluskey '16**

Diane Ravitch: historian of education, an educational policy analyst, and a research professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development "The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education" March 2010 http://www.capitolreader.com/bonus/The%20Death%20and%20Life%20of%20the%20Great%20American%20School%20System.pdf Top-down efforts of reform are flawed. There are no simple solutions or AND by transferring, suspending, or not enrolling) low-performing students.
 * Only bottom-up reform ensures coalition-building and effective implementation**
 * Ravitch '10**

Williamson M. Evers: a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K–12 Education, specializes in research on education policy especially as it pertains to curriculum, teaching, testing, accountability, and school finance September 4, 2014 http://www.hoover.org/research/against-common-core Now, I want to turn to the closely related matter of competitive federalism. AND are protected by the U.S. Constitution's Madisonian system of federalism.
 * Patchwork is a net benefit – not a deficit —- experimentation creates better policy**
 * Evers '14**

DA

The relative scope of federal and state power under the U.S. Constitution AND alternative methods of judicial selection that give a greater role to subnational governments.
 * A. Uniqueness and Internal Link – Federal power is constrained now, this protection of state autonomy is critical to modelling American federalism abroad.**
 * Somin 5/9/2017** Ilya Somin, Professor of Law at George Mason University, 5-9-2017, "Courts In Federal Countries: The Us Case," Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/05/09/courts-in-federal-countries-the-us-case/?utm_term=.7cbc2279a9d7

(The Economist, 1.21.17, "Democrats are learning to invoke states' rights," http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21715039-americas-most-progressive-state-set-lead-new-fight-against-federal, Accessed: 6.24.17)VW "Today, we woke up feeling like strangers in a foreign land, because AND states could also sue to slow the repeal of the Clean Power Plan.
 * Strong federalism now is key to solve warming – reverses Trump's agenda.**
 * Economist 17**

Political scientists Paul Peterson, Kenneth Wong, and Barry Rabe (1986) observed AND national government in K-12 schooling in the future (Ujifusa 2015)
 * C. Internal-Link** **– changes in the balance of education federalism are key to the balance of American federalism.**
 * McGuinn, P. (2016**). Patrick McGuinn PhD, Professor of Political Science at Drew University, From no child left behind to the every student succeeds act: Federalism and the education legacy of the Obama administration. Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 46(3), 392-415. (2016)

Rampage against environmental laws Make no mistake, though, the Trump administration presents AND and trying to make the United States more dependent on Canadian tar sands.
 * Trump's climate agenda is an existential risk.**
 * Podesta 17** — John Podesta, Founder and a Board Member of the Center for American Progress and most recently was the chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, he previously served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and counselor to President Barack Obama, a visiting professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, 2017 ("Battling Climate Change in the Time of Trump," Center for American Progress, March 21^^st^^, Available Online at https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2017/03/21/428812/battling-climate-change-time-trump/, Accessed 07-05-2017, Lil_Arj)