Federal Government System Advantages and Disadvantages

1. Helps manage social and political problems, 2. Helps with education in certain areas, 3. The bureaucracies are only as big as they need to be, 4. Federalism encourages innovation, 5. Find government that fits your values, 6. Maximizes participation

1. The people get so much say that they get to vote for everyone, 2. If the lower level state government is really good then we would want them to run national government

1. Can't stop all conflict, 2. All governments want different things, 3. Local innovation might not be good, 4. Local government can upset national interest, 5. NIMBY. Things that are good for us we don't want in our area

<p>The more governments you have, the freer that you will be. Different governments can protect you from other governments becoming tyrannical</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>States had rights to reject laws they saw as unconstitutional</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>The union victory made it so states didn't challenge legitimate laws, 2. Congress imposed several conditions for readmitting confederate states into the union. This shifted power to the national government</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The belief that having separate and equally powerful levels of government is the best arrangement</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Multiple supreme courts stopped attempts made by state and federal governments to step outside of jurisdictional boundaries, 2. The economic philosophy at the time wanted government interference in the process of industrial development</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>There was no supervision in the market powers to make sure everything was fair, so interstate commerce was passed</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Both levels of a government coordinated actions to solve national problems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Government at first offered little to citizens. After the New Deal, it offered social security, unemployment insurance, and etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Nationalization of politics arose, nationalization process expanded the size of federal administrative and increased flow of federal grants to state and local authorities, 2. States and local authorities were given federal social welfare programs</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>System in which the national government restores greater authority back to the states</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Federal aid to the states without any conditions on how the money is to be spent</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>States compete to attract business by lowering taxes and regulation</p> Signup and view all the answers