Use this American Government by the People video entitled American Federalism to understand how government works and to study how a federal system checks the growth of tyranny, allows unity without uniformity, encourages experimentation, and keeps government closer to the people. Learn about how alternatives to federal systems are unitary systems in which all constitutional power is vested in the central government and loose compacts among sovereign states. Discover how in the 21st century, nations are experimenting with forms of federalism because of the demand for greater autonomy by ethnic groups and others such as the countries of Western Europe have formed a European Union.
Learn about American Federalism.