Limited Government Vs Federal Government

Federalism gives more opportunity for checks and balances in our government. Federalist believed in distributing equal power between the three branches of the government, the national government and the states to ensure a fire wall that prevented an over reach of power. Alexander Hamilton’s wish was to have a fair and efficient government and he believed that the Constitution alone didn’t define all the necessary parameters and a united government was stronger and more cohesive then smaller separate state governments. Hamilton said “Government is indispensable to civil society; to assure its success, we must all give up some of our rights. Therefore, we must consider whether it would be in our best interests to be one nation, with one federal government, or divide into individual, sovereign States or separate confederacies, each with “national” powers.”1 I believe this to be true in relation to our nation’s security as well. We have sacrificed part of our privacy after terror attacks on our nation in order for the greater good. “Liberty is the freedom from the government’s control” 2 but without some control we are left vulnerable to those with greater means and power. “Limited Government is the principle of the constitutional government, a government whose powers are defined and limited by a constitution.”2 It is explained that the government is necessary due to the natural drive of men to oppress or control others of lesser means of power or status than his own.
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