“How does federalism keep government closer to the people?
The founding fathers of The United States had all the intentions to allow the people of our country to govern the people (Coffey, 2011). The Founding Fathers decided to provide Federalism as the political system. Federalism is a system with power that is shared between the federal/central government and the states or subnational governments. Federalism has allowed for the Founding Fathers to provide a government to ensure individual liberty and government decentralized as possible (Coffey, 2011). As a part of this process the Constitution provides for the powers of the federal government and to the state governments to exist and provide for government process to help the citizens. …show more content…
Remember the Constitution starts with the words “We the People”, these three words, shows the importance of the people as the primary part to our country. In part the Founding Fathers were worried that strict rules of law and Centralized power would be not be appropriate for a growing nation and push a government that would not be fluent enough to grow in a progressive manner. A one size fits all Centralized Government process wouldn’t allow for our government to grow, for the country was and is growing, and is a dynamic process that would not be controlled with a single process of governing. The Centralized powers would not allow for the federal government to influence the people more readily. If the people were not involved, and if left openly centralized, issues like tyranny would be the cause of the people left out of the growing nation and then would cause a demise of a nation (Magelby, 2014). Thus, the Founding Fathers pushed federalism as a governing process that would allow and does allow for citizenry involvement and allow the government to be decentralized in some processes and centralized in what the …show more content…
This responsibilities are set in the Constitution as the primary actions for the Federal Government. Over the history of the United States Federalism provides for unity of society, by allowing state and local governments to work through differences and not have every issue brought to the Federal Government. Another part of Federalism gives the states the ability to build legislation that may become national legislation. Federalism also works with the locals for the process allows for multiple people to represent our specific sub-governing bodies and thus provide a broader representation of the people for the people (Zimmerman, 2012). Federalism in a decentralized process works to keep the power and decision making at the local and state levels, but at times due to issues that the local levels don’t handle appropriately, the federal government may and has used “The Supremacy Clause” that gives national laws the absolute power even when states have enacted competing or contradicting laws. Additionally, due to many localities not following specific citizen liberties or entitlements, the federal government has and will set “federal mandates” to impose conditions on the local or state level governments to enact
The founding fathers of The United States had all the intentions to allow the people of our country to govern the people (Coffey, 2011). The Founding Fathers decided to provide Federalism as the political system. Federalism is a system with power that is shared between the federal/central government and the states or subnational governments. Federalism has allowed for the Founding Fathers to provide a government to ensure individual liberty and government decentralized as possible (Coffey, 2011). As a part of this process the Constitution provides for the powers of the federal government and to the state governments to exist and provide for government process to help the citizens. …show more content…
Remember the Constitution starts with the words “We the People”, these three words, shows the importance of the people as the primary part to our country. In part the Founding Fathers were worried that strict rules of law and Centralized power would be not be appropriate for a growing nation and push a government that would not be fluent enough to grow in a progressive manner. A one size fits all Centralized Government process wouldn’t allow for our government to grow, for the country was and is growing, and is a dynamic process that would not be controlled with a single process of governing. The Centralized powers would not allow for the federal government to influence the people more readily. If the people were not involved, and if left openly centralized, issues like tyranny would be the cause of the people left out of the growing nation and then would cause a demise of a nation (Magelby, 2014). Thus, the Founding Fathers pushed federalism as a governing process that would allow and does allow for citizenry involvement and allow the government to be decentralized in some processes and centralized in what the …show more content…
This responsibilities are set in the Constitution as the primary actions for the Federal Government. Over the history of the United States Federalism provides for unity of society, by allowing state and local governments to work through differences and not have every issue brought to the Federal Government. Another part of Federalism gives the states the ability to build legislation that may become national legislation. Federalism also works with the locals for the process allows for multiple people to represent our specific sub-governing bodies and thus provide a broader representation of the people for the people (Zimmerman, 2012). Federalism in a decentralized process works to keep the power and decision making at the local and state levels, but at times due to issues that the local levels don’t handle appropriately, the federal government may and has used “The Supremacy Clause” that gives national laws the absolute power even when states have enacted competing or contradicting laws. Additionally, due to many localities not following specific citizen liberties or entitlements, the federal government has and will set “federal mandates” to impose conditions on the local or state level governments to enact