Day 5: Federalism

Federalism: The authors of the constitution understood that checks and balances in a centralized government could eventually be usurped by persistent efforts from factions. Therefore, federalism was introduced as an additional safeguard against tyranny. 

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” 10th Amendment, U.S. Constitution

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”- James Madison, The Federalist Papers