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Federalism Vs Feds

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A federation, also known as a federal state, is a political union of small self-governing states or regions under a central government. A federal system government in which power is shared between the national and state governments. When our Forefathers establish the constitution they stated that the States should govern themselves. When the Constitution started to settled up the individual states had more power, than the feds.The states lost all the power after the civil war. People believe that the civil war started because of the feds , in the end of the war society believed it was a good idea to give more powers to the federal government. The Federal Government was to have limited powers. Federalism allows both states and feds to …show more content…

States knows the pros and cons if they get more power. An example imagine if all farmers had to grow avocados, this would work better in California than in Iowa. Each state is different in politics the federal government won’t benefit everyone. Back then when the states had more power, fact the union was stronger, and pretend if one state economy suffered, other states wouldn’t know. Now a days of state government every state feels pains on other states. If State gets more power it would make the government more stable and states can create custom ideas due to demographics and economy. I believe that state government would represent us the people , better than a politician in washington. The state government represents the citizens self interests, a policy in california would differ greatly than from Alabama, whether the topic is gun control, gay marriage, or abortion. The states can readily supply the requests of the people, how can congress truly represent the interests of the people when the senate inaccurately represents the country, as big states like New York and Pennsylvania have as much say as Iowa or …show more content…

The United States in itself is a collaboration of united states, states with the ability to govern themselves as they have before in the past. Commerce Clause Article I, Section 8 , Clause 3 known as the Commerce Clause. Commerce Clause says “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States” .Commerce Clause state that congress has authority to manage activities between the states and with nations and Indian tribes. The Commerce clause is also referred to as “ Foreign Commerce Clause” and “ Interstate Commerce Clause.” The Commerce Clause was when Congress wanted a new era of more federal regulation of commerce powers. The reasons why congress made the Commerce clause was for political problems and help balance of federal government and state governments. The Commerce clause was first used in 1824 because of the Gibbons v.Ogden to regulate power to interstate. Also Commerce Clause was used in “Interstate Commerce Act” in 1887 and “Sherman Antitrust Act” in 1980. The Commerce Clause in 1905 was used justify laws and help supreme courts to

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