Cartoon from the 1930s showing President Roosevelt with his New Deal, steering the ship towards economic recovery
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This article is relevant to all specifications that require knowledge and understanding of comparative US/UK politics.
The Founding Fathers intended to limit the interference of the national (federal) government in the affairs of the separate states. However, the Constitution contains no reference to the words ‘federal’ or ‘federalism’ and the term would only be added later via the Tenth Amendment (see Box 1). Federalism means that there is a dual sovereignty, where power is shared between the national and state government. The Tenth Amendment was explicitly designed to protect the autonomy and integrity of the individual states.
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