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    1) Introduction a) Federalists versus the anti-Federalists where Hamilton supports a central gov’t and Jefferson supports the state’s and people’s rights 2) Federalist and Republican Mudslingers a) The Federalists were mad at John Adams for not allowing them to declare war against France, but they ran up the debt with the war preparations, which established new taxes i) The Federalists already had many enemies due to the Sedition & Alien Act b) Federalists fought back against Jefferson by…

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    Federalism And Its Powers When you hear the distribution of powers within the federal system, what comes to mind? What is the federal system, how are these powers distributed within this system, or is McDonalds still open? If McDonalds did not come to mind, according to Dautrich & Yalof (2014) “the federal system is a system of government in which power is divided between a central government and constituent political subunits”. The powers within the federal system are called the enumerated…

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    Federalism In America

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    government is federalism. This is unique to other forms of government throughout the world. It provides a balance of powers to all areas of government i.e. legislative, judicial and executive branches etc. It is and always will be a constant changing form of government. Within this form of government, it has levels, with the Federal Government being supreme, then states and so on. Each level has enough power to do what it is supposed to do but not enough to become tyrannous. America’s Federalism…

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    Federal level governed by a central Constitution, the Anti-Federalists feared centralized power and Constitutional control over the states – who in their minds were more responsive to their citizenry and more accurately reflected the desires and wishes of their respective populations. Both groups, however, were ultimately attempting to preserve liberty – simply disagreeing on the best method to do so. The Federalist approach believed that a…

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    representatives from each of the thirteen colonial states, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, two starkly contrasting groups of state delegates, had gathered to discuss a new Constitution to replace the failed Articles of Confederation. Namely, the delegates had debated as to whether or not the new ruleset should have taken effect, as they possessed highly dissimilar viewpoints regarding the Constitution. There were several Anti-Federalist arguments against the Constitution’s ratification,…

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    Federalism is the political system in which ultimate authority is shared between a central government and state or regional governments. The balance and boundaries between the national and state government have changed greatly. For the framers of the constitution federalism was a way to minimize conformity costs. they knew they couldn’t come up with an exact list of everything the government could and could not being that there will be time where it might has to be some add on to the list. So…

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    government of South Sudan thought of a way where the citizens will be given participation in terms of social, political, and economic affairs (Kimenyi, 2012). South Sudan started the transition into decentralization which then resulted into Federalism. Through Federalism the local governments were given more power which was able to benefit the smaller groups because the government is now closer to the people. The governance for each of the ethnic group would be more effective since they are more…

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    Political System

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    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…

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    There are several laws that our federal, our state, and our local have passed or opposed. For us, as citizens, to know who 's in charge of the United States, our country is based off of federalism. Federalism is the method that allows two or more entities to share control over the same geographic region. It 's a principle of government that explains the correspondence joining the central government at the national level, nevertheless its constituent units at the regional, state, or local levels.…

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    Federalism Pros And Cons

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    Federalism is the divided powers between authorities in the nation; the local, state and national. Mainly the separate powers are between the national which is also known as the federal and the state authorities, local governments are important however, the U.S. Constitution, the supreme law of the land does not recognize the actuality of the local authorities or local government. Federalism does allow local authority to handle local government i.e. police, water, building permits, and peddlers…

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