... practice the same does not always hold true. Is this system of government prone to tyranny; is it truly elitist? That is what this paper seeks to uncover. In the federal system authority is divided, usually by written constitution, between a central government and regional or sub-divisional governments. ... the new constitution was a class-based document intended to ensure that a particular economic elite controlled the public policies of the national government. An anti-federalist under the alias "Cornelius" said, "Thus, I conceive, a foundation is laid for throwing the whole power of t...

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... of the government's powers "particularly those over social programs " were centralized to the federal level. However, in recent years, an increasing number of people on Capitol Hill and across the country want to "devolve," or transfer, power from Washington, D.C., to state and local governments. ... this argument, policy will be the rules, and those rules have various enforcement techniques, not to exclude legal enforcement. James Madison explained in Federalist 10, a primary benefit of federalism is that it contains policy fads or fast-moving popular movements in one or a few states, ...

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