However, the typical laptop with an ExpressCard slot uses that slot as a remote control holder. The ExpressCard slot found in most late-model laptop computers (and a few desktop computers) is a prime example of a high-speed technology that most users arenât putting to work. ExpressCard/34 is 34mm wide, and (you guessed it) ExpressCard/54 is 54mm wide. 2  Both form factors use the same 26-contact connector, and you can connect ExpressCard/34 devices into either type of ExpressCard slot.
This is how the federal government began to remake itself into a national, wartime force. The Civil War and its wartime Congresses gave birth to many of the pillars of the modern federal government. The government sold bonds for the first time and Congress approved the first national banking system. The Agriculture Department was born to help farmers.
Federalism in the United States is the constitutional relationship between U.S. state governments and the federal government of the United States. Since the founding of the country, and particularly with the end of the American Civil War, power shifted away from the states and towards the national government.ew Federalism, which is characterized by a gradual return of power to the states, was initiated by President Ronald Reagan (1981â89) with his devolution revolution in the early 1980s and lasted until 2001.