The United States is a strong believer of federalism. Federalism is the agreement for the federal government to stay out of the independent state government and to only worry about laws that are governed by the Constitution. Therefore, society can have different laws in every state and things that are legal in one state may not be in the other. An example to this is a current change in laws with the legalization of Cannabis in specific states. Federalism is relevant because the United States has always had a strong individuality with state governments. We have valued state government even back to the days of the original English colonies. In addition to this idea, the Constitution is not a rule book for every action that we perform.
