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the Commission's findings is the belief that the federal system has
become "overloaded" largely due to the increase in the federal government's
activities and influence, and that it needs to be restructured.
The Commission focused in 1981 on follow-up activities stemming from
its agenda designed to help restore balance to federalism.
The spotlight has shifted in recent months to states and local
governments and their capacities to assume additional roles and responsibilities
resulting from the Reagan Administration's New Federalism.
Thus ACIR's latest work on the states and their localities, completed
in 1981, proved both timely and significant. Over the past 20 years
the states, the Commission found, had not been overshadowed by the
growth of the federal role but had become federalism's resurgent
partners. While not all 50 states had made equal progress, and all
could use additional improvement, the states had generally strengthened
their executive offices, streamlined their constitutions and legislative
branches, and reformed their judicial systems to the point where today's
states could be termed "transformed." The position of local governments,
on the other hand, was not quite as strong. They had become dependent
on outside revenues, namely federal and state aid, to the point where
their traditional independence was threatened. Improving state-local
relations and strengthening local governments may prove to be one of
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United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. 23rd Annual Report, book, January 1982; Washington, D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1309/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.