Running head: WHAT IS FEDERALISM 1
What is Federalism
Tangella Robinson
Strayer University
POL- 110
Professor Thomas Demko
February 12, 2015
WHAT IS FEDERALISM 2
Throughout this research a question needs to be answered in order to be able to discuss
what Federalism is all about. Federalism is what the government, states and regional
government relies on to operate. It is refers to as the political system in which local (territorial,
regional, provincial, state, or municipal) units of government whose specifically protected, as
well as a national government, make final decisions on at least some governmental activities
(James Q. Wilson., John Diluio, Jr., Bose (2014).
Evolved
The first example of where have we come from as a country, when it come to the evolved
of Federalism is Dual Federalism, which for the most part as been called the “layer cake
federalism” it set the standard of how the power would be divide between the national and state
