Essay on Federalism

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Federalism
When the revolutionary war was over, the American colonists had found themselves
free of British domination. Due to the fact that they were free from British
control, they wanted to create their own system of government where tyranny
would be practically diminished. Originally, The Articles of Confederation
connected the separate states. But this document gave the central government no
power of it’s own. Because of this, the states had many problems in
international politics since they had just found freedom and did not have the
respect of other countries. This caused a lot of thinking and it was decided
that a document needed to be created to strengthen the central government and at
the same time ensuring the safety of the states. So came to be the constitution.

The constitution brought about a division between the American people. These two
groups were the federalists, who believed that the constitution was good, and
the anti-federalists who thought that the constitution would not be able to
protect the rights of the people. These two groups had conflicting views but
together, they both wanted the same thing. The same thing was that the people
should control America by the principles of federalism. Both groups, the
federalist and anti-federalists recognized the fact that power was being abused.

They witnessed what had happened in the war and that their had been negative
effects of power and the result was very clear. British vocation had made them
very aware

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