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Subsidiarity Is the Old Idea Behind Keeping Power as Close to Home as PossibleDecisions belong at the lowest level that can handle them. Where the idea comes from, how it works, and the cases where a higher level must act.Governor Reagan, Sacramento and the Welfare Fight Nobody RemembersReagan's eight years as California governor taught him to bargain, sign tax bills he disliked and win welfare reform from a Democratic legislature.Who runs foster care, who pays for it and what the 1997 law changedFoster care is a state and county system under federal rules tied to money. Here is who sets what, what the 1980 and 1997 laws did, and where you can push.A Seven-Point Checklist for Judging Any Governor's Emergency PowersEmergency powers are real and necessary, and they are dangerous without an end date; here is a seven-point test that works no matter who holds the office.NFIB v. Sebelius Lost the Mandate Fight but Won a Limit on Federal StringsEveryone remembers Roberts calling the mandate a tax. The lasting conservative win in the 2012 case was the limit on forcing states with federal money.Three Imaginary States Show What a Trifecta Really Buys YouHolding the governorship and both chambers lets a party govern instead of propose, but it does not buy unity. Three hypothetical states show the math.What a Governor Can Actually Do and What Only the Legislature CanA governor is the most visible official in a state and often the least free. Here is the real job, power by power, so you can judge candidates against it.