Federalism In The United States Government

In the American government the term federalism is very important since it deals with the division of power. “ Federalism is defined to be a form of government in which some powers are assigned to the national government, and some to the lower levels of government (Jillson,603). The two types of government are the national and state government. The national government, which is the same as the federal government deals with Military issues, treaties, interstate highways, and welfare programs.The state government is involved with regulating marriage, issuing driver's license,education and public safety. Federalism deals with the way power is distributed out in the united states. This is very important because it allows the states to keep things

Federalism means some power belong to the national government in Washington, D.C. The other powers belong to each of the states. Since, federalism exist there are federal and state legal systems in the united states for this reason we have different court systems Such as federal courts and state courts. Under federalism each government is independent and has it’s own powers and responsibilities. The government are allowed to make their own laws for their people. The state government needs to try to make laws that fit in with their state. Some of the laws made in the states have to go according to the needs of the citizens or the people that live in the state. Their responsibility of making the laws for the states deal with education, public safety, marriage and

Some of the issues a state will have will be funding for public safety, schools and even health care. By this, I mean not creating certain laws or giving them money for the things the states need. The federal government also tries to cut money off from being given to the states. The federal government would try to give the states extra responsibility by not helping them. They’ll try to make it up to the states to become in charge of providing on their own welfare money, and fundings for things that are very important to the states. The federal government would try to ignore the help the states need and it affects the states a lot because sometimes they need extra fundings and etc. According, to Macmillan “ President Bill clinton addressed the issue of unfunded mandates-requirements that the federal government imposed on the states without providing money to pay for them. The following year he signed a welfare-reform bill that diminished the federal government’s authority over welfare benefits and transferred considerable responsibility for the program to the states (Macmillan,1)”. In this case, president Bill Clinton wanted to return power to the states by not allowing the federal government to have power or authority on the welfare reform