How and Why has federalism changes sice the 1960s

... Outline how and why federalism has changed since the 1960s. How federal is the USA in reality? In the 1960s, the government had a creative federalist approach. Lynden Johnson's Great society programme's objective was to eliminate poverty; this meant large government grants, and a high level of interference from the federal government. LBJ would provide categorical grants instead of block grants, which meant the states had much less control over their spending. He also supplied a lot of federal aid, increasing the dependence of states on the federal government. It wasn't just the executive increasing the role; the judiciary were also pushing the government this way, with cases such as Gideon vs. Wainwright and Miranda vs. Arizona. Since the 1960's the argument is that New Federalism has been the main objective of the executive and judiciary as a reaction to the creative federalism. From the 1970s there was an ideological shift,

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