Federalism has come a long way from where it began. Federalism is a system of government on a territorial basis, between a central government and several regional governments. Going from Dual Federalism to modern day New Federalism.
Dual Federalism got its name because the the state and national government stayed separate. A way to understand all the types of federalism is by using cake as an example. When talking about Dual Federalism think of a three layer cake. One layer is the National Government, The second layer is State Government, and the third is Local Government. Each layer stays separated by the icing in the middle so they cannot collide. From 1937 to 1963 our country had Cooperative Federalism. This type of Federalism came from