US CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Federalism is a system of government in which the power is divided between a central authority and various constituent units of the country. Usually, a federation has two levels of government. One is the government for the entire country that is usually responsible for a few subjects of common national interest.

Detailed explanation-2: -Federalism is the word used to describe the Constitution’s system of dividing political power between the national government and the states.

Detailed explanation-3: -Federalism in the United States is the constitutional division of power between U.S. state governments and the federal government of the United States. Since the founding of the country, and particularly with the end of the American Civil War, power shifted away from the states and toward the national government.

Detailed explanation-4: -Federalism limits government by creating two sovereign powers-the national government and state governments-thereby restraining the influence of both. Separation of powers imposes internal limits by dividing government against itself, giving different branches separate functions and forcing them to share power.