Federalism Is When Power Is Separated Between The Government And The States

Federalism is when power is separated between the National Government and the states. In the constitution it gives certain powers to the National Government and to the states that includes implied powers. The people who wrote the constitution did this to keep the Government from having too much power over the states and the people. There are different types of Federalism that were created for different purposes at different time periods.
Cooperative Federalism is when the National Government and the states share an equal amount of power. This would be a problem because both the states and the Government would be constantly fighting over power. This type of government lasted from 1901 - 1960. New federalism started in the 1980 when Ronald