Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his “Notes on the Federal Convention”. The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and it has been important to succeeding generations of Americans who lived their lives and struggled with collective issues and concerns in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Numerous ideas on government emanated from European and American colonial writings and were reformulated during the American founding era. It was in this period, as the thirteen colonies gained independence from Greta Britain, that Americans wrote state constitutions, the Articles of Confederation, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. The founding of an American constitutional republic in the eighteenth century with a federal system of democratic government attracts the attention of thoughtful citizens today not only in the United Sates but also those who are attempting to establish constitutional democracy in the other…
Federalism as we know it today, is a complex and dynamic method of government that divides power between a national government and smaller governmental units. In the United States, the smaller governmental units represent the state/local governments. The United States first started out as a confederation of thirteen states and eventually established a successful federal system. The Founders of this country identified several reasons for creating a federalist government: To evade tyrannical rule…
men had to frame the declaration of independence so everyone knew the rules clearly. Federalism helped to protect against tyranny by appointing certain powers to each section of the government. Document B also divided power among people and their jobs so that everyone is happy. (The president, senate, supreme court.) Checks and balances were created so that not one group had to much power. In document…
Increasing involvement in politics, evading tyranny, and new concepts and programs being developed in the states were the main reasons our Founders produced and choose a federalist government. The founders and sponsors of a federalist government were George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison. “As James Madison pointed out in The Federalist, No. 10, If "factious leaders kindle a flame within their particular states," national leaders can check the spread of the "conflagration…
Federalism is a system of government which divides sovereignty between a central government and several constituent parts. This division is established constitutionally and lays out which powers of government are the sole jurisdiction of the national or provincial/state governments. However, this is merely the purest form of federalism, and one that does not necessarily exist. In Canada, powers are divided between the central and provincial governments in the constitution, and all those that are…
Cross indicates that the answer to the problem of federalism lies within the governmental structure. Using the example of Australia, Cross explains that the States there have educational ministers as well as federal educational ministers. These ministers have a council in which all parties have to reach consensus before a policy moves forward. This is decidedly different from the way laws are made in Congress. If decisions were agreed and accepted by this council, it would be the council…
Which political system is better for a country? Each country have different needs, cultures, history, strengths and weaknesses to take into account in order to find the appropriate system. The aftermath of war in Iraq, when talking about politics, was focused on asserting control over the country, the next step in order to rebuild the country is establishing a representational system, the majority believe that democracy is the system to follow, since a democracy is not a unknown concept for…
The different ethnic groups give challenge to the government in managing all of the groups at once. The ineffectiveness of the government in delivering the needs of the groups makes it the people question the kind of government that they have. The concentration of power in the central government immobilizes the power of the local governments. To be able to address this problem, the government of South Sudan thought of a way where the citizens will be given participation in terms of social,…
Federalism, the division of government into two sovereign powers (the national and state governments), is based in the Constitution and has been affirmed by the Supreme Court’s interpretations as to what the Constitution requires. While the 10th Amendment is the only portion of the Constitution that expressly addresses the division of authoritative rights, many other sections of the Constitution affirm the importance of federalism and justify rules enacted in its protection. Some…
A fight for competitive federalism lies in the beginning of this article. The author is specifying for a particular type of federalism in which the central government should play a very limited role, exclusively running our units of states to compete with one another on economic values of their citizens. Federalism empowers our citizens by providing this pluralism system, establishing more accessibility to leaders and increase citizens’ participation within their government. This participation…