... v. Ferguson. By World War II racial separation was a salient feature of the American South. THE IMPORTANCE OF FEDERALISM During the 1830s, nearly forty years after the writing of the U.S. Constitution and in the midst of the crisis of nullification, James Madison reaffirmed the centrality of federalism while writing the preface to what would become his "Notes on the Federal Convention". The federal system certainly was important to James Madison and his contemporaries, and ... their state and national governments. Moreover, Federalists believed that a large "extended republic" was the p...

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