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Federalism



             United States. Finally, the recent course of federalism has been to give powers back to .
             the states. (Henig p. 53).
             Federalism was needed in the Constitution to make sure that the national .
             government did not gain too much power. After the revolution, many people feared a .
             monarchy or any form of government in which the central ruling body had too much .
             power. The framers wanted the states to have much more power than the national .
             government, and allowed the national government power only in areas that concerned the .
             nation as a whole. Areas such as war, negotiation, and foreign commerce were some of .
             the only circumstances in which the national government had absolute power. By limiting .
             the national governments power in this way, the writers felt that they had ensured the .
             sovereignty of the individual states. Also, people have a tendency to feel more connected .
             to their state government than they would a national government. Therefore, by giving .
             the states more power, people are more likely to be happy with their government. .
             One common misconception is that many people equate public policy to law. .
             On it's very simplistic side, it is, but on its broad side it encompasses much, much more. .
             One could possibly say that public policy effects Americans in so many ways that if each .
             way was enumerated it would fill several libraries. Public Policy is the examination of .
             the creation, by the government, of the rules, laws, goals, and standards that determine .
             what government does or not do to create resources, benefits, costs, and burdens. .
             (Birkland 5) For the sake of this argument, policy will be the rules, and those rules have .
             various enforcement techniques, not to exclude legal enforcement. .
             James Madison explained in Federalist 10, a primary benefit of federalism is that .
             it contains policy fads or fast-moving popular movements in one or a few states, thus .
             preventing the growth of expansion of conflict to the national level.


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