POL 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Eleventh Amendment To The United States Constitution, Supremacy Clause, Enumerated Powers
13 Sep 2016
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Revolutionary war: a nation is said to exist when people in a country have a sense of common identity due to origin, history or ancestry. A common sense of identity created a military advantage as well as a political advantage: confederal, unitary, and federal systems, a confederal system is a system of government in which ultimate authority rests with the regional (state) governments. State and regional governments may exist but their powers are up to the national government. The state in a unitary system has no powers that the federal government grant. The framers feared that too much national power would lead to tyranny: a federal system is a system of government in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided does not between national and state governments. In a federal system, the ideal means of power comes from the people giving authority to the national and state distributing governments. William national government] and a kinds of government to make some decisions.
