Federalism Is the Best Step
Although the word federalism does not appear in the Constitution, it is one of the most important and innovative concepts in it.
When the Constitution was adopted in 1789, a federal republic, not a democracy, was established. As future president James Madison wrote in The Federalist, No. 10: “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
Federalism is the division of power between the national and state governments. Articles I through III of the Constitution delegate certain powers to the three branches of the national government. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments make it clear that all rights and powers not delegated to the federal government are retained by the people and the states.
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