The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration to the states of some of the autonomy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Under 'New Federalism,' president Ernesto Zedillo (1994-2000) was attempting to de-politicized social programs.