Federalism is a system of government in which power is divided, by a constitution, between the central government and regional government. To the United States, this meant the abuse of powers could be prevented by keeping them separate. Our system of federalism has evolved over time starting from a dual federalism, then cooperative federalism, and now the new federalism. Dual federalism did not allow the federal government to supersede the laws of the state. The cases of McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden changed the states’ rights. With the aid of the federal government to help the states with grants, The New Deal of the 1930s set the way to changing federalism is a cooperative one. The federal government changed the aid to block grants
